 | Robert Thurston Hopkins - 1913 - 186 pages
...Wilde. " What is the Love that dare not speak its name ? " asked Mr. Gill. Wilde replied — " The Love that dare not speak its name in this century...basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the work of Michael Angelo and the sonnets of Shakespeare. It is that deep spiritual affection that is... | |
 | James Thomas Harris - 1916 - 350 pages
...poem, he let himself go for the first time and perhaps the only time during the trial; he said: "The 'love' that dare not speak its name in this century is such a great affection of an older for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very base of... | |
 | Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman - Humor - 1959 - 276 pages
...the reviews. MR. CF GILL : What is the " Love that dare not speak its name " ? OSCAR WILDE : " The Love that dare not speak its name " in this century...philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect.... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 568 pages
...p. 184. Howarth quotes a statement that Wilde made at his trial when asked about this passage: "The 'Love that dare not speak its name' in this century...younger man as there was between David and Jonathan. ... It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. . . . There is nothing unnatural... | |
 | John Sutherland - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 224 pages
...homoeroticism - a theme taken up by Oscar Wilde under cross-examination (some would say crucifixion): 'The love that dare not speak its name in this century...younger man as there was between David and Jonathan . . . ' In the twentieth century, Kirkup's poem suggests, gays can come out and flaunt their preference.... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...the poem in a successful defense against the libel suit. In the course of the trial Wilde said: "The 'Love that dare not speak its name' in this century...younger man as there was between David and Jonathan. ... It is that deep, spiritual affection that is pure as it is perfect." After he lost the libel suit,... | |
 | Ronald R. Butters, John M. Clum, Michael Moon - Fiction - 1989 - 328 pages
...impassioned speech from the second trial (which was met by "loud applause, mingled with some hisses"): "The love that dare not speak its name" in this century...philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect.... | |
 | John Alan Lee - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1991 - 262 pages
...he expressed so eloquently at his second trial in this now famous speech (Hyde, 1962, p. 201): The love that dare not speak its name in this century...was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made (he very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
..."The Love that dare not speak its name" in this century ¡s such u great affection of an elder tor sy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. GEORGE BURNS...1979). 4 It is surely a matter of common observati Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect... | |
 | Linda Dowling - Foreign Language Study - 1994 - 196 pages
...sudden and eloquent energy. Passionately defending male love as the noblest of attachments, a love "such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare," Wilde called it "pure" and "perfect" and "intellectual" (236), his superb... | |
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The Love that dare not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo... 
