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Oscar wilde de profundis full text6/2/2023 During his stop in Lincoln, Nebraska, he and the young literature professor George Woodberry were taken to visit the local penitentiary. Financially pressed and known primarily as a public speaker-by then he had only published a thin volume of poems-he’d committed to a nine-month lecture tour of America. The first time Oscar Wilde saw the inside of a prison, it was 1882-thirteen years before he’d serve the famous criminal sentence that produced De Profundis, his 55,000-word letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. Read the previous entry, on writers who found God from behind bars, here. Max Nelson is writing a series on prison literature.
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