With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of Lond
on. De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his love
r, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend
Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of priso
n life, which was published anonymously in 1898. This collection also includes t
he essay The Soul of Man under Socialism and two of his Platonic dialogues, The
Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist.
