2 As is well known, Wilde titled the manuscript of his letter ‘Epistola in Carcere et Vinculis’ (‘Letter from Prison and in Chains’).De Profundis (from Psalm 130) was the title Wilde’s close friend, Robert Ross, gave to a heavily abridged version of the letter he published in 1905. Ross’s edition amounted to less than half of Wilde’s letter and omitted
Since“De Profundis” was in the form of a long letter, it would be his property when he was free. It took him three months, with much revision. Oscar Wilde in around 1890. Photograph: Print Collector/Getty Images.
DeProfundis est une longue lettre qu'Oscar Wilde a écrite à son jeune amant, Lord Alfred Douglas, depuis la prison de Reading, début 1897. Elle est publiée en version expurgée en 1905 et dans sa version intégrale corrigée en 1962.

OscarWilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854 to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (1820-1896), While in prison, he writes De Profundis 1898 Writes his best known poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol. His wife, Constance, dies. 1900

preventsone from calling Wilde a Christian. Instead, especially in De Profundis, Wilde considered Christ a "realised" man, an individual who became what he wanted to become, who was free from the trammels of social convention. In De Profundis Wilde also argued that Christ was the forerunner of the romantic movement in the arts, that Christ was the . 390 326 17 20 30 82 275 403

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