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Oscar Wilde (Life (Famous quotations («I have nothing to declare except my…
Oscar Wilde
Life
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He became a disciple of Walter Pater, the theorist of aestheticism.
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He was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London and one of the greatest celebrities of his days.
He suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned after been convicted of “gross indecency” for homosexual acts.
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Works
Poetry:
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898
Fairy tales:
The Happy Prince and other Tales, 1888
The House of Pomegranates, 1891
Novel:
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Plays:
A Woman of no Importance, 1893
The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892
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Wilde’s aestheticism
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• Virtue and vice employed by the artist as raw material in his art: “No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style”. (“The Preface” to The Picture of Dorian Gray).