Oscar Wilde and Myself

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Memoirs

Authors: Lord Alfred Douglas In Year : 1914

Book Language: English

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Preface and Introductory
Oxford
Lost Illusions
Wilde in Society
The Lord of Language
Our Mutual Friends
Lord Queensberry Intervenes
The Wilde Trials
Hard Labour and After
Naples and Paris
The ''Ballad of Reading Gaol''
The Truth about ''De Profundis''
My Letters to Wilde
My Letters to Labouchere
The Article in the ''Revue Blanche''
Fifteen Years of Persecution
Wilde’s Poetry
The Plays and Prose Works
For Posterity
The British Museum and ''De Profundis''
Ransome’s ''Critical Study''
My Actions for Libel
''The Picture of Dorian Gray''
Literature and Vice
Crosland and ''The First Stone''
A Challenge to Mr. Ross
Wilde in Russia, France and Germany
The Smaller Fry
To Be Done with It All

The first memoir by the poet Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas was written 14 years after the death of Oscar Wilde and in the aftermath of Douglas's failed prosecution of Arthur Ransome for libel. Ransome, in his "Oscar Wilde, a Critical Study," had quoted from the expurgated portions of Wilde's prison letter to Douglas, "De Profundis", which was highly critical of his former friend and lover. Having failed to convince a jury that he had been libelled, Douglas appealed instead to posterity by writing his memoir. In "Oscar Wilde and Myself" Douglas refutes Wilde's version of the events that led to his (Wilde's) imprisonment and takes swipes at Ransome, Wilde's friend Robert Ross, other biographers of Wilde, and Wilde's overzealous imitators. He also critiques Wilde's writing and character and concludes that the Irish playwright will soon be forgotten. (Rob Marland)