De Profundis (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- First Published: 1905
- Type of Work: Letter
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Letters
- Subjects: Prisoners, Prisons, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Authors or writers, Literature, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Drama or dramatists
Critical Evaluation:
The eighty-page manuscript of this letter rests in the British Museum. It was written in Reading Gaol on prison paper during the last months, from January to March, of Oscar Wilde’s two-year sentence for “unnatural practices.” It was addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas, but when Wilde was not allowed to send it from prison he handed it to his friend Robert Ross the day after he was released on May 19, 1897, with instructions to type a copy and send the original to Lord Alfred, who always claimed he never received it. Part of the work was first published...
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