![]() ![]() ![]() "He repudiates Lord Douglas for what Wilde finally sees as his arrogance and vanity he hadn't forgotten Douglas's remark, when he was ill, 'When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting.' He also felt redemption and fulfilment in his ordeal, realising that his hardship had filled the soul with the fruit of experience, however bitter it tasted at the time." writes that, in reference to the contents of the letter, Wilde was unable to send the letter during his time incarcerated, though he was allowed to carry the letter with him once freed. ![]() While imprisoned at Reading Gaol in 1897, Oscar Wilde wrote a 50,000 word letter titled De Profundis to Lord Alfred Douglas.ĭe Profundis, originally titled Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis, or Letter: In Prison and in Chains, was written between January and March of 1897. ![]()
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