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Apr 30, 2024 · Oscar Wilde (born October 16, 1854, Dublin, Ireland—died November 30, 1900, Paris, France) was an Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose reputation rests on his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray, moral fantasy novel by Irish...
- Art for Art's Sake
art for art’s sake, a slogan translated from the French...
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Oscar Wilde, (born Oct. 16, 1854, Dublin, Ire.—died Nov. 30,...
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- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Who Was Oscar Wilde?
- Early Life and Education
- Career Beginnings
- Acclaimed Works
- Personal Life and Prison Sentence
- Death and Legacy
Author, playwright and poet Oscar Wilde was a popular literary figure in late Victorian England. After graduating from Oxford University, he lectured as a poet, art critic and a leading proponent of the principles of aestheticism. In 1891, he published The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel which was panned as immoral by Victorian critics, but ...
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland. His father, William Wilde, was an acclaimed doctor who was knighted for his work as a medical advisor for the Irish censuses. William later founded St. Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital, entirely at his own personal expense, to treat the city's poor. Wilde's mother, Jan...
Upon graduating from Oxford, Wilde moved to London to live with his friend, Frank Miles, a popular portraitist among London's high society. There, he continued to focus on writing poetry, publishing his first collection, Poems, in 1881. While the book received only modest critical praise, it nevertheless established Wilde as an up-and-coming writer...
Beginning in 1888, while he was still serving as editor of Lady's World, Wilde entered a seven-year period of furious creativity, during which he produced nearly all of his great literary works. In 1888, seven years after he wrote Poems, Wilde published The Happy Prince and Other Tales, a collection of children's stories. In 1891, he published Inte...
Around the same time that he was enjoying his greatest literary success, Wilde commenced an affair with a young man named Lord Alfred Douglas. On February 18, 1895, Douglas's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, who had gotten wind of the affair, left a calling card at Wilde's home addressed to "Oscar Wilde: Posing Somdomite," a misspelling of sodom...
Wilde died of meningitis on November 30, 1900, at the age of 46. More than a century after his death, Wilde is still better remembered for his personal life—his exuberant personality, consummate wit and infamous imprisonment for homosexuality—than for his literary accomplishments. Nevertheless, his witty, imaginative and undeniably beautiful works,...
Oct 26, 2022 · English. xxvi, 1270 pages : 25 cm. "In The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, replete with newly discovered correspondence, the full extent of that genius is unveiled. Charting his life from his Irish upbringing to his fame in fin de siecle London to infamy and exile in Paris, these letters - written between 1875 and 1900 - reveal Wilde's wit ...
Oscar Wilde in context / Kerry Powell and Peter Raby. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-107-01613-2 (Hardback) 1. Wilde, Oscar, 1854–1900. 2. Wilde, Oscar, 1854–1900–Criticism and interpretation. 3. English literature–19th century–History and criticism. i. Raby, Peter. ii. Title. pr5824.o83 2013 8280. ...
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Names: Wilde, Oscar, 1854–1900, author. | Frankel, Nicholas, 1962– editor. Title: The critical writings of Oscar Wilde : an annotated selection / Oscar Wilde ; edited by Nicholas Frankel. Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references.
Jan 1, 2003 · Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1 Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Subject: Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography Category: Text: EBook-No. 3662: Release Date: Jan 1, 2003: Most Recently Updated: Jan 8, 2021: Copyright Status: Public domain in ...
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Oscar Wilde. A Literary Life. Book. © 2019. Download book PDF. Download book EPUB. Overview. Authors: Kimberly J. Stern. Expands on Wilde’s relationship to key Victorian and nineteenth-century social movements and ideologies. Identifies important influences on Wilde.
