By Oscar Wilde
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What can be learned from Wilde舗s life and cultural history that will help us to understand the prominence of Dorian Gray as a work of literature? Essentially that nothing quite like it had been published in the popular press before. Oscar Fingal O舗Flahertie Wills Wilde, who sought more vocally than almost anyone to redefine the relationship between art and life, was born in Dublin on October 16, 1854. This was the year of the Crimean War Battle of Balaclava and its wasteful, devastating Charge of the Light Brigade, celebrated, also in that year, by poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson舗s elegiac poem of the same name.
Angry over Wilde舗s alleged influence upon his son, Queensbury accused Wilde in a note of being a 舠posing somdomite舡 (sic). Queensbury舗s defense attorney even presented The Picture of Dorian Gray as an immoral, perverted book and as one of the fifteen pleas for justification of his client舗s claim (although the justice at Wilde舗s next trial chose not to rule Dorian Gray as evidence of Wilde舗s crimes). Thus the novel took on yet another role: involuntary accomplice to Wilde舗s accuser. The libel suit was not resolved in Wilde舗s favor, and during the proceedings Queensbury舗s defense provided enough potential evidence of homosexuality to have Wilde tried under the Criminal Law Amendment Act.
He would never again see his sons. From prison, Wilde composed, in the form of a letter to Douglas, his apologia De Profundis (posthumously published in 1905), whose Latin title means 舠Out of the Depths,舡 and which takes its name and religious tenor from Psalm 130, which reads, in part: 舠If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? 舡 The probing, deeply religious nature of this last work still did not bring about Wilde舗s Catholic conversion, however. ) Unlike John Gray, Wilde could not bring himself to use religion as a refuge from his earthly problems.