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De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to his friend and lover Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas. In its first half, Wilde recounts their previous relationship and extravagant lifestyle which resulted eventually in Wilde's conviction and imprisonment for gross indecency .
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde is a book that contains over a thousand pages of letters written by Oscar Wilde. Wilde's letters were first published as The Letters of Oscar Wilde in 1963, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis and published by his publishing firm. Merlin Holland revised the book and included new discoveries in a new edition: The ...
The love that dare not speak its name is a phrase from the last line of the poem "Two Loves" by Lord Alfred Douglas, written in September 1892 and published in the Oxford magazine The Chameleon in December 1894.
Oscar Wilde wrote that "travel improves the mind" — and we couldn't agree more.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde [a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwrights in London in the early 1890s. [3]
Wilde presents the essay as a Socratic dialogue between two characters, Vivian and Cyril, who are named after his own sons. [1] Their conversation, while playful and whimsical, promotes Wilde's view of Aestheticism over Realism. [2] [3] Vivian tells Cyril of an article he has been writing called "The Decay of Lying: A Protest". According to ...
1999 saw the publication of Oscar Wilde on Stage and Screen by Robert Tanitch. This book is a comprehensive record of Wilde's life and work as presented on stage and screen from 1880 until 1999. It includes cast lists and snippets of reviews. In 2000 Barbara Belford, a professor at Columbia University, published Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius.
Related: 'Everything Popular Is Wrong'—Here Are the 50 Best Oscar Wilde Quotes. 21. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of ...