7/30/2023 0 Comments Oscar wilde gay![]() That it should be so the world does not understand. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an elder and a younger man, when the elder man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. It dictates and pervades great works of art like those of Shakespeare and Michelangelo, and those two letters of mine, such as they are. Wilde received an ovation when he defended the "Love that dare not speak its name" in court, as "that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. The first letter selected below is the "infamous" letter which Wilde sent to "Bosie" which fell into the hands of a homosexual pimp and was used to blackmail Wilde and which eventually contributed to his conviction on charges of "gross indecency", and two years' imprisonment. Your friend Oscar Wilde." Wilde enclosed a photograph of himself inscribed to Griffiths with the message "The secret of life is Art." The secret of Wilde's sex-life is also art: Wilde idealized his affairs with upper-class youths in terms of pastoral mythology, and romanticized his affairs with lower-class rough trade as "feasting with panthers." But it was in fact his aristocratic lover Lord Alfred Douglas (1870≡945) who was the real panther. You have a beautiful nature made to love all beautiful things, and I hope we shall see each other soon. In the letter, written in 1894, Wilde asked Griffiths to send him a photograph "which I will keep as a memory of a charming meeting, and golden hours passed together. In November 1993 an unpublished letter from Oscar Wilde (1854≡900) to one of his young friends, the wealthy twenty-year-old Phillip Griffiths, together with a signed photograph were auctioned by Christies in London for £18,700. Gay Love Letters through the Centuries: Oscar WildeĪn Ill-Fated Friendship The Gay Love Letters of Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas Excerpts from My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through theĬenturies (1998), Edited by Rictor Norton Copyright © 1997, 1998 by Rictor Norton. ![]()
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