A destructive relationship laid bare
Of all the people who have ever crossed my life you were the one, and the only one, I was unable to influence in any direction
Bosie was feckless, hot-tempered and totally alluring. Incapable of resisting him, Wilde would pay the ultimate price for his desire: following his conviction Wilde lost everything and would never be allowed to see his two sons again, whom he adored. His imprisonment turned his love into bitterness and the tone of De Profundis captures this, as well as the extraordinary attachment he felt for Bosie. Despite the passage of a century, their relationship, and Wilde’s downfall and suffering, still fascinates and its concerns feel modern and recognisable.