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showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Arts Business Entertainment Games ... More... On this page: Dictionary Encyclopedia Literature WordNet Wikipedia Best of Web Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Oscar Wilde Dictionary Wilde wīld Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Irish-born writer. Renowned as a wit in London literary circles, he achieved recognition with The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), a novel. He also wrote plays of lively dialogue, such as The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), and poetry, including The Ballad of Reading Gaol Encyclopedia Wilde, Oscar (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), 1854–1900, Irish author and wit, b. Dublin. He is most famous for his sophisticated, brilliantly witty plays, which were the first since the comedies of Sheridan and Goldsmith to have both dramatic and literary merit. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself for his scholarship and wit, and also for his elegant eccentricity in dress, tastes, and manners. Influenced by the aesthetic teachings of Walter Pater and John Ruskin , Wilde became the center of a group glorifying beauty for itself alone, and he was famously satirized (with other exponents of “art for art's sake”) in Punch and in Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Patience.

42. Glbtq >> Literature >> Wilde, Oscar Oscar Wilde is important both as an accomplished writer and as a symbolic figurewho exemplified a way of being homosexual at a Wilde, Oscar (18541900) http://www.glbtq.com/literature/wilde_o.html

Encyclopedia Discussion Forgot Your Password? Not a Member Yet? JOIN TODAY. IT'S FREE! Advertising Opportunities Terms of Service Alpha Index: A-B C-F G-K L-Q ... T-Z Subjects: A-B C-E F-L M-Z Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) page: The importance of Oscar Wilde resides both in his art and in his personality. He is one of the most accomplished writers of his generation, but quite apart from his actual literary achievement, he is significant as a symbolic figure who exemplified a way of being homosexual at a pivotal moment in the emergence of gay consciousness, the crucial final decade of the nineteenth century. Actually, however, Wilde's literary significance is inseparable from his function as a symbolic figure. Although he frequently asserted the impersonality of art, his own art is irreparably bound to his personality. Sponsor Message. In fact, his greatest artistic creation is the complex and contradictory persona reflected in his work and in his life. Ultimately, that persona became transfigured from a witty aesthete into a figure as poignant as it was unpredictable, Saint Oscar, the homosexual martyr. Born to accomplished but eccentric parents in Ireland in 1854, Wilde was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was almost equally influenced by the practically incompatible artistic doctrines of the moralistic John Ruskin and the epicurean Walter Pater.

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Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde was born Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde on October 16, 1854 in Dublin. He was the son of Sir William (1815-1876), a famous eye specialist, and Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (1821?-1896). He attended Trinity College in Dublin from 1870-1874, and then studied at Magdalen College, Oxford. While a scholar there, he toured Italy and Greece and published his first work in verse and prose, and won the Newdigate Prize for his poem "Ravenna" in 1878. He graduated with a first-class B.A. in Literae Humaniores ("Greats") in 1878. He moved to London soon afterwards, and published a book of poetry, Poems , in 1881. The next year, he embarked on a lecture tour of the United States and Canada. In 1883 his first play, Vera; or, the Nihilist , premiered in New York, but closed after only a week. On May 29, 1884, he married Constance Mary Lloyd (1858-1898), daughter of an English lawyer and an Irish mother; they honeymooned in Paris. Constance was active as a writer of children's books, in a variety of women's social and political associations, and as a hostess of their distinguished dinner parties (Guests included Whistler, Sargent, Burne-Jones, Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, Lillie Langtry, Swinburne, Ruskin, and Browning). Their first son, Cyril, was born in 1885, and their second, Vyvyan, was born the next year. In 1886, he met Robert Ross, a young homosexual who became one of Wilde's closest friends and his literary executor. Wilde became a regular reviewer for the Pall Mall Gazette

46. Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wilde (1854-1900) Oscar Fingal O Flaherty Wilde (18541900) The irate peer left a card atWilde s club addressed To Oscar Wilde posing as a Somdomite (sic). http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wilde/pva94.html

Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wilde (1854-1900) Philip V. Allingham , Faculty of Education, Lakehead University (Canada) scar Wilde, the son of an eminent Dublin surgeon Walter Pater he founded the Aesthetic Movement, which advocated "art for art's sake." His aesthetic idiosyncrasies such as his wearing his hair long, dressing colourfully, and carrying flowers while lecturing Gilbert and Sullivan parodied in the operetta Patience After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he published several children's books, and in 1891 the tale of a hedonistic Adonis with the tormented soul of a satyr, The Picture of Dorian Gray . In a brilliant series of domestic comedies Lady Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance (1893), and An Ideal Husband (1894) Wilde took the London stage by storm with his witty, epigrammatic style, insolent ease of utterance, and suave urbanity. Wilde described Lady Windermere's Fan as "one of those modern drawing-room plays with pink lampshades." Its combination of polished social drama and corruscatingly witty dialogue was repeated in 1895 in the two hits that he had on the London stage simultaneously, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest . Later that same year Wilde's tragic downfall was precipitated by the accusation of homosexuality by the Marquis of Queensbury, father of Wilde's intimate, Lord Alfred Douglas. The irate peer left a card at Wilde's club addressed: "To Oscar Wilde posing as a Somdomite" (sic). Wilde, taking it that the writer meant "Sodomite," sued for libel. However, after a sensational trial, Wilde was sentenced to two years' hard labour for homosexual practices. Sent to Wandsworth Prison in November, 1895, Wilde was subsequently transferred to Reading Gaol. Bankrupt and ruined in health, Wilde left prison in 1897 and settled, bitter and broken, in Paris under the pseudonym "Sebastian Melmoth" (the name of his favourite martyr from

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48. Neurotic Poets: Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde. (18541900). G t is not so much his own neuroticism but rather thepathologically expressed moral values of the times he lived in which caused http://www.neuroticpoets.com/wilde/

Oscar Wilde t is not so much his own neuroticism but rather the pathologically expressed moral values of the times he lived in which caused Oscar Wilde to plummet from the height of a brilliant career into the very depths. Granted, he did have a set of eccentric parents. His father, Sir William Wilde was a noted eye and ear surgeon, who had several illegitimate children from extramarital affairs. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Elgee Wilde, was a flamboyant and unconventional woman (for her time), a poetess and a nationalist who fought for women's rights. She went by the pen-name of "Speranza". Oscar was born in Dublin on October 16, 1854, two years after the eldest son of the family, William. Because Lady Wilde had longed for a daughter as a second child, she is said to have often dressed little Oscar in girls' clothing. A daughter, Isola, was born to the family in 1858 but she died at the age of eight, which affected the twelve-year old Oscar deeply. He had been close to his little sister and he later wrote the poem Requiescat to perpetuate her memory.

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The Library of Congress Exhibitions American Treasures Find in American Treasures Pages Exhibition Web Pages All Library of Congress Pages Home Overview Checklist of Objects Learn More ... Acknowledgments Sections: Journalist and Teacher Wound Dresser Poet of the Nation Good Gray Poet ... Leaves of Grass Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) to Walt Whitman, [1882] Transcription Return to exhibition object Before I leave America I must see you againthere is no one in this wide great world of America whom I love and honour so much. With warm affection, and honourable admiration, Oscar Wilde. Home Overview Checklist of Objects Learn More ... Acknowledgments Sections: Journalist and Teacher Wound Dresser Poet of the Nation Good Gray Poet ... Exhibitions Online Survey July 29, 2005 Find in American Treasures Pages Exhibition Web Pages All Library of Congress Pages Contact Us

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53. Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde. (18541900). Wilde is rightly best known for his prose and it issometimes forgotten that he was also a prolific poet. http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/wilde/

Poet Index First Line Index Ask a question on the Poetry Webring Forum Chesil's Musings Poetry E-Cards Themes: Death My Favorites Reflective Romantic ... War Poets: Lord Byron John Clare Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ernest Dowson ... Webrings Other sites close to my heart: lilip My Other Pages Poetry Webring Mail me! Oscar Wilde Wilde is rightly best known for his prose and it is sometimes forgotten that he was also a prolific poet. His poetry was of mixed quality and did not, in my view, approach the heights that his better known writing achieved. The best known title is The Ballad of Reading Gaol which is a poem that surpasses every other poetic work that he produced; it contains probably his most widely known verse lines: Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! He wasn't the first martyr for homesexuality but he did bring the issue forward in a time that was hugely resistant to serious discussion of homosexuality but because it was also a hugely hypocritical time he paid a bitter price and never really recovered from his incarceration. I offer the powerful Ballad of Reading Gaol together with Panthea which, although not a great work, does carry particular resonance for me. More will follow although it is not intended for this to become a comprehensive collection of Wilde's poetry.

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57. Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde (18541900). picture of Oscar Wilde. As with many poets representedhere, Wilde s best work was not in the sonnet form. http://www.sonnets.org/wilde.htm

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) As with many poets represented here, Wilde's best work was not in the sonnet form. For some sonnets about Wilde, see Lionel Johnson and Sir Alfred Douglas E. Tenebris The Grave of Keats To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control? Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole. Surely there was a time I might have trod The sunlit heights, and from life's dissonance Struck one clear chord to reach the ears of God: Is that time dead? Lo, with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance And must I lose a soul's inheritance? E. Tenebris Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my soul in Hell must lie If I this night before God's throne should stand.

58. Quotes - Oscar Wilde , Oscar Wilde Quotations, Oscar Wilde Sayings - Famous Quot Oscar Wilde (18541900). The books that the world calls immoral are the Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). A man can t be too careful in the choice of his http://home.att.net/~quotesexchange/oscarwilde.html

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Oscar Wilde He was born Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde on October 16th, 1854 in Dublin Ireland. His father was William Wilde, a leading ear and eye surgeon and an author in his spare time. His mother was a revolutionary poet who was very knowledgeable in Celtic myth. With that kind of a background, one has to admit that Oscar Wilde was exposed to the literary world from a very young age indeed. He attended Portora Royal School, in Enniskillen and later, on scholarships, he attended Trinity College in Dublin and Magdalen College at Oxford from which he graduated with honors in 1878. During his final years in school, Wilde distinguished himself as a classical scholar and a poet. He took to heart the teaching of the English writers John Ruskin and Walter Pater on the central importance of art in life. He won the Newdigate Prize in 1878 for his poem, Ravenna . He also started to show signs of the distinctive lifestyle that would later herald his life. He wore his hair long, and his dress symbolized the teachings of Pater, as he frequently wore velvet knee breeches. While his attitude and manners were becoming the subject of criticism, his wit and brilliance were winning him fans. Wilde established himself in the social and artistic circles of London and in 1881 published at his own expense his first book

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