Lionel Johnson the "Green Dragon" on Fleet Street. During his lifetime were published his "The Art of Thomas Hardy" (1894), "Poems" (1895), and "Ireland and Other Poems" (1897). He was one of the Rhymers' Club, and cousin to Olivia Shakespear (who dedicated her novel "The False Laurel" to him). In June 1891 Johnson introduced his cousin Lord Alfred Douglas to his friend Oscar Wilde. He later repudiated Wilde in "The Destroyer of a Soul" (1892), deeply regretting initiating what became the highly scandalous love affair between the two men. Over a century after its writing in 1893, Johnson's poem "Dark Angel" inspired
Lord Alfred Douglas and threatening to beat people with a horsewhip. Alfred sent his father a postcard stating "I detest you" and making it clear that he would take Wilde's side in a fight between him and the Marquess, "with a loaded revolver". In answer Queensberry wrote to Alfred (whom he addressed as "You miserable creature") that he had divorced Alfred's mother in order not to "run the risk of bringing more creatures into the world like yourself" and that, when Alfred was a baby, "I cried over you the bitterest tears a man ever shed, that I had brought such a creature