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OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900), toured and lectured about the Pre-Raphaelites…
OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)
EARLY LIFE
He was born in Dublin (Ireland) in 1854
He was a
brilliant
student :
He studied in the most prestigious universities in Ireland, the Trinity College, and Oxford University
LEADING FIGURE OF THE AESTHETIC MOVEMENT
THE DANDY
elegant man
attention to his appearance
his wit
unmask the absurdities of Victorian moralism
Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde and Dorian Gray are perfect representations of the dandy
TRIAL AND PRISON
1891 Wilde had an affair with Alfred Douglas
accused of homosexuality by Douglas father
TRIAL AND CONVICTED (2 years in Reading gaol)
DE PROFUNDIS (letter to Lord Alfred)
ABANDONED BY almost everyone (friends and wife9
EXILE
after prison Wilde lived in exile in France
under a pseudonym Sebastian Melmoth
Wilde wrote the ballad of reading
Gaol describing his terrible prison experience
He died of meningitis in Paris in 1900 (outcast and poor)
toured and lectured about
the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetes
WILDE ON AESTHETHISM :
He search for the beautiful
A science through which men looked for the relationship
existing between painting, sculpture and poetry (=simple forms of the same truth)