Swedish Poet and Writer. He was the count of Bogesund and the heir to an estate near Kolga in Estonia. While at Oxford, Eric was deeply influenced by the homosexual Pre-Raphaelite artist and illustrator Simeon Solomon. He also had a relationship with the composer and conductor Norman O'Neill. He published a number of books of verse during his lifetime, including Love, Sleep, and Dreams, 1881, and Rue, Myrtle, and Cypress, 1883. In 1894, Stenbock published The Shadow of Death, his last volume of verse, and Studies of Death, a collection of short stories. By 1895, however, he was heavily addicted to opium and alcohol and moved back to Brighton to convalesce at his mother's house. Here, he died of cirrhohis. Before burial his heart was placed in a jar and sent to the family church in Estonia. He has been described as 'the first Goth' and 'the Quentin Crisp of the 1890s'. Members of Brighton Ourstory are campaigning with The Lost Club to have his grave restored.
Swedish Poet and Writer. He was the count of Bogesund and the heir to an estate near Kolga in Estonia. While at Oxford, Eric was deeply influenced by the homosexual Pre-Raphaelite artist and illustrator Simeon Solomon. He also had a relationship with the composer and conductor Norman O'Neill. He published a number of books of verse during his lifetime, including Love, Sleep, and Dreams, 1881, and Rue, Myrtle, and Cypress, 1883. In 1894, Stenbock published The Shadow of Death, his last volume of verse, and Studies of Death, a collection of short stories. By 1895, however, he was heavily addicted to opium and alcohol and moved back to Brighton to convalesce at his mother's house. Here, he died of cirrhohis. Before burial his heart was placed in a jar and sent to the family church in Estonia. He has been described as 'the first Goth' and 'the Quentin Crisp of the 1890s'. Members of Brighton Ourstory are campaigning with The Lost Club to have his grave restored.
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