This is an outstanding performance - thank you so much, Mr. Bartlett. I actually find the fact that you are moved to tears by some of the passages to be one of the highlights of the whole reading - and I am impressed by your stamina and resistance and the quality that you were able to stamp the reading with up to the very last minute. A great tribute to our beloved Oscar
The best "Present for Mr Wilde" and his fans one can ever dream of! Extraordinary, dazzlling, mesmerising... a truly Wilde voice, thank you so much Mr Bartlett! six hours and thirteen minutes of pure pleasure and exquisite pain.
Bravo, Mr. Bartlett. Like many I suppose who have viewed this I have known the text for decades, but I did not appreciate the depth of its artistic and humanist vision until now. Even out of the more turgid passages you wring meaning and feeling. Your own emotional reactions, although they seemed to cause you embarrassment as an actor, demonstrated the tenderness and sensitivity you brought to the text and, in so doing, brought us closer to Wilde's own despair and longing. Again, bravo.
Feeling imprisoned by the coronavirus lockdown, I go to my bookshelves in search of De Profundis. No sign of it! No matter: listening to this fellow is much pleasanter than the reading of small font on yellowed paper would be. Thank you for reading and posting this.
Wow! Just wow! 😭💔💔💔 that was absolutely amazing! I had cracked before the end and was crying with you! That was such a testament to him! I so hope he could see/hear this, wherever his soul may be and know that he is still so important, admired and appreciated, I was struggling at the beginning but I’m so glad I persevered, I was soon emersed and you did such a phenomenal job! Thank you for this performance ❤❤❤❤
This is wonderful. I don't even have words to describe it. The extent of the emotion you felt for the text made it come alive. It was magical to hear you read it. Thank you.
I have been absolutely entranced by this for nearly 5 hours, and I expect to finish the rest with the same level of attentiveness and fascination. Thank you.
A very meaningful and emotional experience. Thank God Oscar Wilde's work, passion and love lives on. I pray that wherever his soul is he can see the legacy and respect that he has left the world.🙏
I really enyojed this😮 reeding, and nice voice, well done - thank you! This relationship was obviously kind of karma.... whithout any knowlige about it, and without any spirituall help, or conciosness about its neceserity...! And weknes to say NO to the manipulative person that we would today call "narcisstic"or with any other personal desorder...! And evan today such a sick or obsessed persons are destroying the lifes of others, close friends and family. Thank you Oskar Wilde for all your sincere words, it makes difference❤
So happy I searched and found this version. Thank you for the upload what a gift and a great job by Mr Bartlett what stamina and emotion throughout the whole six hours. Just a wonderful reading. Well worth it for anyone considering watching but put off by the length. Definitely well worth it; you’ll remember it for a long time.
"It comes from the heart, may it go to the heart." Words fail me in the face of this brilliant, epic performance from Neil Bartlett of Oscar Wilde's masterpiece, one of the great spiritual documents of the 19th century. Thank you Artangel for showing us how one great artist honors another!
This is the most beautiful reading and interpretation I have ever experienced. I wept. I laughed. I was aghast. The language and passion are beyond my description. And after all is said and done, Oscar Wilde still loves the man who broke apart his world.
I did not like the first part. Then it becomes transformative. I do not have the eloquence required to describe what an amazing piece of writing this is. And hats off to the reader for bringing it to life.
We are all Oscar Wilde. I couldn't stop listening until it was over. England must restore the glory, dignity and humanity of the person and soul of such a distinguished son of God and of the British nation. God has already done that Justice in heaven, it is his turn to receive human justice.
after all his consideration of the toxicity of Lord Alfred and his realization of it through this letter , after he got out of nick he still reunited and lived with him again . for a man of his intellect Wilde was unbelievably foolish .
Jose L Gutierrez Don’t forget he was hunting with Bosie for underage, working class rentboys who were out there on the streets. He wasn’t picking them up to assist them but for sex... so this idea of him as a gay martyr is laughable.
@@DeepScreenAnalysis This discussion leads nowhere. Please listen to Oscar Wilde's letter in whole. Perhaps you'll learn something (even about yourself).
Bravo. What a feat. I can't believe Neil pulled off such passion and inflection for so long. I could feel the scouring of illusion Oscar had gone through in every word.
Qué hermosa carta, llena de paradojas, de pensamientos nobles, cuanta sabiduría dicha con los mejores ejemplos, cuanta Piedad! Todo lo que se ha sentido, lo que se siente y lo que se sentirá hasta que desaparezcamos.
Mr Wilde, I hope you can see us today. We have pushed through so much of that sorrow; but it is still there, and we cannot ever forget it and that is what keeps us fighting today to be understood. To those who cause this sorrow, the error of their ways, to let people live their life authentically. Thank you and to Mr Barlett for his visceral reading of your masterpiece.
A great letter written in cramped and confined circumstances. Mr. Wilde found himself in prison, came to his senses after the initial shock of imprisonment with its daily drudgery and monotony. But, jail, or gaol, was just the beginning, as we know. The open prison of society outside Reading Gaol would have further humiliations and little cruelties in store for 'our vain glorious talker.' He was in good 'nick' when he finally left prison, looking healthy and young again (spartan prison regime to thank for this!) but, unfortunately, he took up with his nemesis Bosie again, Lord Alfred Douglas. Pity he got bored in his French coast hideaway where he had been quite happy in the summer but found too bleak in the winter, only to go south again to Italy and take up with his dear boy Bosie. Och, what a tragedy for himself and his family, his poor wife Constance (Connie), his ol' Ma, too, died of a broken heart.Despite his downfall, Oscar Wilde is still the Happy Prince of English Letters, the master storyteller and genius talker who we still love and admire today.
I've been trying to find the full text for a while now, and I cannot find it anywhere! Every version I've come across has only the second half beginning with "...suffering is one very long moment". I could only get my hands on the complete letter in portuguese! I simply can't understand why it is so hard to get the complete letter in english...
This immortal hate letter contains some beautiful and accurate gems, such as the importance of small actions in building habits that will carry you through the great moments- or cause you to fail at the key juncture. That nothing is insignificant.
Yes, it may as well have been. However, he walked out of prison penniless, with no reputation, and with a meningitis infection to boot - his days were numbered. His mother had died while he was still in prison; his wife would die not long after his release. His children lived abroad, and he would not be allowed to see them again. He must have felt that there wasn´t much for him to look forward to, anymore. He said it best - in the letter itself - when he wrote, "For me that beautiful world of colour and motion has been taken away." Society would not receive him after prison, either; the only society left to him were a handful of close friends, the likes of Robert Ross - and Lord Alfred, in due course. Given those circumstances, he couldn´t afford to turn away the very few people who wanted to still associate with him; it couldn´t get any worse for him: Emotionally speaking, he was a wrecked man already. It may seem strange that he would still want to see Bosie after all that had happened... But there is this letter to consider: For all his berating of him in it, the fact that Wilde would dedicate this letter in all its wisdom to Lord Alfred, reveals just how fond Wilde remained of him, in spite of everything. Tragic, sad, and beautiful.
Hello it’s 4 years later but yes. That is what Oscar and apparently so many people in the comments do not seem to understand. Alfred Douglas was verbally, mentally, financially and at a guess, in some way physically abusive. Wilde said he thought Douglas was going to kill him in that hotel room. This is about more than melodrama and greed, this is a man’s life ruined by abuse, love and an archaic court system.
THESE RENT BOYS THEY NOTH PREFERRED - WERE YOUNG - DOES THIS MAKE THEM BOTH PEDOPHILES? AS A LORDS SON THATS NORMAL - BUT ITS TRUE TO REMEMBER THAT IN OUR DAY AND AGE THEY WOULD BE SHAMED FOR PEDOPHILE NOT FOR BEING GAY. SO SAD. THE READING HERE IS AMAZING. TRUTHFUL.
After all that, he signs the letter, "Your affectionate friend" and sees him yet again. Unbelievable. And he writes, "I don't doubt that you loved me." Um, hello, Wake up call to Oscar.
Nowadays few people can pull off public readings as brilliant and moving as you did.
What a privilege, to have come across this recording. Mr Bartlett completely channels Oscar Wilde in this reading - a masterpiece indeed.
This is an outstanding performance - thank you so much, Mr. Bartlett. I actually find the fact that you are moved to tears by some of the passages to be one of the highlights of the whole reading - and I am impressed by your stamina and resistance and the quality that you were able to stamp the reading with up to the very last minute. A great tribute to our beloved Oscar
The best "Present for Mr Wilde" and his fans one can ever dream of! Extraordinary, dazzlling, mesmerising... a truly Wilde voice, thank you so much Mr Bartlett! six hours and thirteen minutes of pure pleasure and exquisite pain.
Bravo, Mr. Bartlett. Like many I suppose who have viewed this I have known the text for decades, but I did not appreciate the depth of its artistic and humanist vision until now. Even out of the more turgid passages you wring meaning and feeling. Your own emotional reactions, although they seemed to cause you embarrassment as an actor, demonstrated the tenderness and sensitivity you brought to the text and, in so doing, brought us closer to Wilde's own despair and longing. Again, bravo.
Wonderful narrator. Best I've ever heard
Feeling imprisoned by the coronavirus lockdown, I go to my bookshelves in search of De Profundis. No sign of it! No matter: listening to this fellow is much pleasanter than the reading of small font on yellowed paper would be. Thank you for reading and posting this.
This is a true gift. Thank you for sharing this masterful reading. Bravo, Mr Bartlett.
Omg this was so magnificently read. Thank you so much. I felt each and every emotion. I really thought I was hearing Oscar Wilde himself. Bravo!!!!!
Wow! Just wow! 😭💔💔💔 that was absolutely amazing! I had cracked before the end and was crying with you! That was such a testament to him! I so hope he could see/hear this, wherever his soul may be and know that he is still so important, admired and appreciated, I was struggling at the beginning but I’m so glad I persevered, I was soon emersed and you did such a phenomenal job! Thank you for this performance ❤❤❤❤
Jesus. This is magnificent, indescribable, historic...
Hear hear!
@Andro mache I'm so confused
@Andro mache he died in prison
@@AM-mv5pu Oscar? He died in Paris in 1900
This is wonderful. I don't even have words to describe it. The extent of the emotion you felt for the text made it come alive. It was magical to hear you read it. Thank you.
That deep breath at the beginning, knowing the task ahead of him. “From Her Majesty’s prison, Reading.” Straight out of the gate, masterclass.
A true gift from dearest Oscar and Mr. Neil Bartlett.
Absolutely gripping, scathing, so well done.
I have been absolutely entranced by this for nearly 5 hours, and I expect to finish the rest with the same level of attentiveness and fascination. Thank you.
A very meaningful and emotional experience. Thank God Oscar Wilde's work, passion and love lives on.
I pray that wherever his soul is he can see the legacy and respect that he has left the world.🙏
Magnificent ! Bravo !
I really enyojed this😮 reeding, and nice voice, well done - thank you!
This relationship was obviously kind of karma.... whithout any knowlige about it, and without any spirituall help, or conciosness about its neceserity...! And weknes to say NO to the manipulative person that we would today call "narcisstic"or with any other personal desorder...! And evan today such a sick or obsessed persons are destroying the lifes of others, close friends and family. Thank you Oskar Wilde for all your sincere words, it makes difference❤
I came across this amazing reading of a love note that bares its soul with all emotions one can ever feel, by accident, what a beautiful accident....
This is heart-breaking.
How wonderful. I'm so delighted I came upon this. Thank you!
So happy I searched and found this version. Thank you for the upload what a gift and a great job by Mr Bartlett what stamina and emotion throughout the whole six hours. Just a wonderful reading. Well worth it for anyone considering watching but put off by the length. Definitely well worth it; you’ll remember it for a long time.
beautiful parts
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This could well be the greatest piece of art on TH-cam. Bravo humanity!
He cried. I cried.
Me too..a few times
"It comes from the heart, may it go to the heart." Words fail me in the face of this brilliant, epic performance from Neil Bartlett of Oscar Wilde's masterpiece, one of the great spiritual documents of the 19th century. Thank you Artangel for showing us how one great artist honors another!
Amazing that they later reconciled after this letter.
How lucky I am to find this. My deepest thanks to Mr. Bartlett.
Bartlett's book is perhaps the best ever written on Wilde's work, and this is a magnificent reading of a masterpiece
This is the most beautiful reading and interpretation I have ever experienced. I wept. I laughed. I was aghast. The language and passion are beyond my description. And after all is said and done, Oscar Wilde still loves the man who broke apart his world.
A beautiful, thoughtfully paced reading, with feeling and sensibility. A gift.
Absolute banger of a breakup album
I did not like the first part. Then it becomes transformative. I do not have the eloquence required to describe what an amazing piece of writing this is. And hats off to the reader for bringing it to life.
Awesome Art and Depth!
Almost makes me weep each time I read this
. God bless,☘️📚
We are all Oscar Wilde. I couldn't stop listening until it was over. England must restore the glory, dignity and humanity of the person and soul of such a distinguished son of God and of the British nation. God has already done that Justice in heaven, it is his turn to receive human justice.
pure gold
This is too wonderful. Thank you my good sir.
Stunning. Just stunning.
thank you kindly! !!!!!!!
fala em portugues porra
Such a tribute, and so masterfully executed.
after all his consideration of the toxicity of Lord Alfred and his realization of it through this letter , after he got out of nick he still reunited and lived with him again . for a man of his intellect Wilde was unbelievably foolish .
He obviously could resist anything except temptation
@Whizper2me he was generally naive, not just towards Alfred.
@@mariaspieler2447 Well played.
Could be Bosie was all he had left.
I think of him as an innocent. Very well read but emotionally undeveloped. It must have been difficult to be gay in those days.
Wilde stands a gentle giant towering over the smallness of his age.
That is a fantastic thought that occurred to you, Jose.
Jose L Gutierrez Don’t forget he was hunting with Bosie for underage, working class rentboys who were out there on the streets. He wasn’t picking them up to assist them but for sex... so this idea of him as a gay martyr is laughable.
@@DeepScreenAnalysis So why then weren't Bosie punished? Was it becuase he was a member of the British aristocracy? Such hypocracy is laughable.
Yes, he was protected and also, due to his youth no doubt. Wilde was the one who was exploiting homeless working class boys @@gskndbrg
@@DeepScreenAnalysis This discussion leads nowhere. Please listen to Oscar Wilde's letter in whole. Perhaps you'll learn something (even about yourself).
Wow, Wilde's spiritual insights sound very similar to those of St. John of the Cross, who also had been imprisoned centuries before.
Bravo. What a feat. I can't believe Neil pulled off such passion and inflection for so long. I could feel the scouring of illusion Oscar had gone through in every word.
Very, very enjoyable. Thank you.
Thank you Mr. Bartlett. I feel Oscar Wilde speaking his truth and sharing his wisdom with us. Bravo!
Amazing reading!
Heartbreakingly sad!
Absolute masterclass. 👏👏
Thank you.
So heartbreaking...
Qué hermosa carta, llena de paradojas, de pensamientos nobles, cuanta sabiduría dicha con los mejores ejemplos, cuanta Piedad! Todo lo que se ha sentido, lo que se siente y lo que se sentirá hasta que desaparezcamos.
Excellent.
Bravo! I'm speechless. 👏👏👏👏👏
He nailed it.
Utterly brilliant
Thank you Thank you Thank you
Mr Wilde, I hope you can see us today. We have pushed through so much of that sorrow; but it is still there, and we cannot ever forget it and that is what keeps us fighting today to be understood. To those who cause this sorrow, the error of their ways, to let people live their life authentically. Thank you and to Mr Barlett for his visceral reading of your masterpiece.
Exquisitely read … bravo standing ovation
Ooohhh my Oscar!! ❤
5:19:06 what a burn
I'm trying to find the full version in book format but it seems rather impossible, would anyone know where I'd be able to do so?
The Folio Society has published an edition recently. Gutenberg, I believe has a free downloadable edition.
Absolutely stunning. My heart be still. Swoon.
This really should be at 18 billion views but alas, ignorance is 'bliss'.
Oscar is eternal
Loving caring experience to share
Who would have guessed that such depth of feeling could be summoned by one of the Chuckle brothers.
A great letter written in cramped and confined circumstances. Mr. Wilde found himself in prison, came to his senses after the initial shock of imprisonment with its daily drudgery and monotony. But, jail, or gaol, was just the beginning, as we know. The open prison of society outside Reading Gaol would have further humiliations and little cruelties in store for 'our vain glorious talker.' He was in good 'nick' when he finally left prison, looking healthy and young again (spartan prison regime to thank for this!) but, unfortunately, he took up with his nemesis Bosie again, Lord Alfred Douglas. Pity he got bored in his French coast hideaway where he had been quite happy in the summer but found too bleak in the winter, only to go south again to Italy and take up with his dear boy Bosie. Och, what a tragedy for himself and his family, his poor wife Constance (Connie), his ol' Ma, too, died of a broken heart.Despite his downfall, Oscar Wilde is still the Happy Prince of English Letters, the master storyteller and genius talker who we still love and admire today.
I've been trying to find the full text for a while now, and I cannot find it anywhere! Every version I've come across has only the second half beginning with "...suffering is one very long moment". I could only get my hands on the complete letter in portuguese! I simply can't understand why it is so hard to get the complete letter in english...
This immortal hate letter contains some beautiful and accurate gems, such as the importance of small actions in building habits that will carry you through the great moments- or cause you to fail at the key juncture. That nothing is insignificant.
LOVED IT. AS THOUGH OSCAR WILDE WAS SAYING IT.
Neil Bartlett is a wonderful interpreter of Wilde's work
Breathtaking
Oscar Wilde was a brilliant man, laid low by the hypocrisy of the society which raised him up. We love you Oscar
I cannot believe he saw him again after jail. sounds like an abusive relationship to me
Yes, it may as well have been. However, he walked out of prison penniless, with no reputation, and with a meningitis infection to boot - his days were numbered. His mother had died while he was still in prison; his wife would die not long after his release. His children lived abroad, and he would not be allowed to see them again. He must have felt that there wasn´t much for him to look forward to, anymore. He said it best - in the letter itself - when he wrote, "For me that beautiful world of colour and motion has been taken away."
Society would not receive him after prison, either; the only society left to him were a handful of close friends, the likes of Robert Ross - and Lord Alfred, in due course. Given those circumstances, he couldn´t afford to turn away the very few people who wanted to still associate with him; it couldn´t get any worse for him: Emotionally speaking, he was a wrecked man already.
It may seem strange that he would still want to see Bosie after all that had happened... But there is this letter to consider:
For all his berating of him in it, the fact that Wilde would dedicate this letter in all its wisdom to Lord Alfred, reveals just how fond Wilde remained of him, in spite of everything. Tragic, sad, and beautiful.
Hello it’s 4 years later but yes. That is what Oscar and apparently so many people in the comments do not seem to understand. Alfred Douglas was verbally, mentally, financially and at a guess, in some way physically abusive. Wilde said he thought Douglas was going to kill him in that hotel room. This is about more than melodrama and greed, this is a man’s life ruined by abuse, love and an archaic court system.
Gosh, Really ???? LOL!!!
This is magnificent
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A beautiful reading.
WOW
It took so much time that I actually could see hair growing on the man's shaved head.
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Please edit your misspelling of Gaol here...
You mean the world "gaol"?
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Great reader
Wilde converted to Catholicism later on. May he rest in peace, wtih God
THESE RENT BOYS THEY NOTH PREFERRED - WERE YOUNG - DOES THIS MAKE THEM BOTH PEDOPHILES? AS A LORDS SON THATS NORMAL - BUT ITS TRUE TO REMEMBER THAT IN OUR DAY AND AGE THEY WOULD BE SHAMED FOR PEDOPHILE NOT FOR BEING GAY. SO SAD. THE READING HERE IS AMAZING. TRUTHFUL.
2:54:00- I was a man who stood in symbolic relations
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BOWSIE SOUNDS AN EVIL LORDS SON. REFUSING TO EVEN GET MILK FOR OSCAR WHEN HE HAD FLU.
After all that, he signs the letter, "Your affectionate friend" and sees him yet again. Unbelievable. And he writes, "I don't doubt that you loved me." Um, hello, Wake up call to Oscar.
darren motise, love is blind
@Whizper2me And a type of addiction ~ to pain, drama, and self-destruction.
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why 6 hours???!!
darren motise i hope you are being facetious
Dear AI, when, as the experts say, the day shall come, that you decide the fate of humankind, please consider this, and save us.
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