Oscar Wildes

biography

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Maria Diaz
Paula Mompaque
Cesar Cucuma
Main features of his life
Wilde is considered one of the most outstanding playwrights of Late
Victorian London; In addition, was a celebrity of the time due to its
great and sharpened wit.

Son of prominent intellectuals from Dublin, from early age acquired

fluency in French and German.

He was a prominent classicist, first at Trinity College, Dublin and

then at Magdalen College, where he graduated with the highest
honors in classical studies, both for the so-called Mods, traditionally
considered the most difficult examinations in the world, As in the
Greats (Literae Humaniores). Guided by two of his tutors, Walter
Pater and John Ruskin, he became known for his involvement in the
growing philosophy of aestheticism. He also explored deeply
Catholicism-a religion to which he became his deathbed. After his
university break, he moved to London, where he moved in the
cultural and social circles of fashion.
Main features of his life
As a spokesman for aestheticism, he performed several
literary activities; Published a book of poems, gave
lectures in the United States and Canada on the English
Renaissance and then returned to London, where he
worked prolifically as a journalist.
In the 1890s he refined his ideas about the supremacy of
art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated
themes of decadence, duplicity and beauty into his only
novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
In the heyday of his fame and success, while his
masterpiece The importance of being called Ernesto
continued to be represented on stage, Wilde sued the
father of his friend and lover Alfred Douglas for
defamation, when accused of homosexuality.
Main features of his life

After a series of trials, and evidence presented for the

case, Wilde was convicted of serious indecency and
imprisoned for two years, forced to perform forced labor.
In prison, wrote De Profundis, a long letter describing the
spiritual journey he experienced after his trials, a dark
counterpoint to his earlier hedonistic philosophy.
After his release, he immediately left for France, where he
wrote his last work The ballad of the jail of Reading, a
poem in commemoration to the hard rhythms of the prison
life.
He died destitute in Paris, at the age of forty-six.
 After his dead
His eldest son Ciryl died in May 1915, at the height of World
War I and as member of the British force that fought in
France. His second son Vyvyan continued in footsteps of his
father and devoted himself to writing and translation. He
came to publish his memoirs in 1954 and his son, Merlin
Holland, has published and published several works on his
grandfather Oscar Wilde.

In 1950, fifty years after his death, the ashes of his friend
Robert Baldwin Ross were added to his grave in the Pre-
Lacharse cementery. This art artic claimed to have been
Oscars Wilde first male lover.
 After his dead
His headstone is full of kisses, although this is cleaned
every certain period of time.
 stories :

The happy prince and other short stories in

1888
The Crime of Lord Arthur Savile and Other
Stories In 1891
In September A house of grenades
The portrait of Mr. W.H. In 1889
 ESSAYS
The decay of lies: A dialogue in 1889
Pen, pencil and poison in 1890
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