Gavin Hopps is the Research Council’s UK Academic Fellow in the School of Divinity at St. Mary’s College, the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
... of suffering,
Writing from prison in the letter to Lord Alfred Douglas which was later given the title De Profundis, Wilde claims: ‘Better than Wordsworth himself I know what Wordsworth meant when he said—“Suffering is permanent,...