Autobiography of oscar wilde poetry foundation
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Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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 is now considered one of his most notable works. As a dramatist, many of Wilde’s plays were well received including his satirical comedies Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), his most famous play. Unconventional in his writing and life, Wilde’s affair with a young man led to his arrest on charges of "gross indecency" in 1895. He was imprisoned for two years and died in poverty three years after his release at the age of 46.
Early Life and Education
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
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POEMS
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OSCAR WILDE
Transcribed from the 1913 Methuen & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
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Ravenna | 1878 |
Poems | 1881 |
,, Fifth Edition | 1882 |
The Sphinx | 1894 |
The Ballad of Reading Gaol | 1898 |
First Issued by Methuen and Co. (Limited Editions on Handmade Paper and Japanese Vellum) | March 1908 |
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