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| '''Lionel Pigot Johnson''' was an English poet, essayist and critic. He was born at Broadstairs, and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, graduating in 1890. He became a Catholic convert in 1891. He lived a rather solitary life in London, struggling with alcoholism and his repressed homosexuality.
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| During his lifetime ''The Art of Thomas Hardy'' (1894), ''Poems'' (1895), ''Ireland and Other Poems'' (1897) were published. He was one of the Rhymer's Club.
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| In 1892, Johnson converted to Catholicism. He repudiated former friend Oscar Wilde and directed a sonnet at him called "The Destroyer of a Soul" (presumably the soul of his cousin Lord Alfred Douglas, whom he had introduced to Wilde the previous June). In the following year, Johnson wrote what some consider his masterpiece: "The Dark Angel". [[Lion El'Jonson|The Primarch of the bath-robe wearing Chapter is named after him.]]
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| He died of a stroke after a fall in the street, though it was said to be a fall from a barstool (probably as a dark joke about his drinking habits).
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