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Oscar Wilde
Born | 16 October 1854
Dublin, Ireland |
Died | 30 November 1900 (aged 46)
Paris, France |
Occupation | Writer |
Language |English, French |
Nationality | Irish |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
Period | Victorian era |
Genres | Drama, short story, dialogue, journalism |
Literary movement | Aestheticism |Notable work(s) | The Importance of Being Earnest,The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Spouse(s) | Constance Lloyd (1884–1898) |
Children | Cyril Holland, Vyvyan Holland |
Relative(s) | Sir WilliamWilde, Jane, Lady Wilde |
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Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; heproved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, WalterPater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a bookof poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit,flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the most well-known personalities of his day.
At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series ofdialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, andcombine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the...
Oscar Wilde
Born | 16 October 1854
Dublin, Ireland |
Died | 30 November 1900 (aged 46)
Paris, France |
Occupation | Writer |
Language |English, French |
Nationality | Irish |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
Period | Victorian era |
Genres | Drama, short story, dialogue, journalism |
Literary movement | Aestheticism |Notable work(s) | The Importance of Being Earnest,The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Spouse(s) | Constance Lloyd (1884–1898) |
Children | Cyril Holland, Vyvyan Holland |
Relative(s) | Sir WilliamWilde, Jane, Lady Wilde |
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Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; heproved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, WalterPater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a bookof poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit,flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the most well-known personalities of his day.
At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series ofdialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, andcombine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the...
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