TY - BOOK AU - Wilde, Oscar TI - De profundis : Ballad of Reading Gaol and other writings T2 - Wordsworth classics SN - 9781840224016 (pbk.) : U1 - 828.803 PY - 1999/// CY - Ware PB - Wordsworth Editions N1 - De Profundis is Wilde's bitter reproach from prison to his erstwhile love, Lord Alfred Douglas, whilst ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"" is a deeply moving, somewhat rhetorical poem on the woes of prison life which contrasts with the deep personal anguish revealed in ""De Profundis"" ER -