The Trial of Oscar Wilde: From the shorthand reports - Softcover

Wild, Oscar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1984297252 ISBN 13: 9781984297259

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

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Charles Gill (prosecuting): What is "the love that dare not speak its name"? Oscar Wilde: "The love that dare not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It dictates and pervades great works of art, like those of Shakespeare and Michelangelo, and those two letters of mine, such as they are. It is in this century misunderstood, so much misunderstood that it may be described as "the love that dare not speak its name," and on that account of it I am placed where I am now. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an older and a younger man, when the older man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him. That it should be so, the world does not understand. The world mocks at it, and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it. — Oscar Wilde was incarcerated between 25 May 1895 and 18 May 1897.

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1984297252
• ISBN 13: 9781984297259
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
• Herausgeber: Kim Doyle