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Oscar Wilde

Also known as Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde, Oscar O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)

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Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet, playwright, and writer from the late 1800s who became famous for his witty and artistic works. He remains influential in literature and culture for his distinctive style and memorable writings that continue to be read and performed today.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. Wilde's…

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Edward Carson and the Fall of Oscar Wilde — Self (archive footage)2021
The Life and Loves of Oscar Wilde — Self (archive footage)1995

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Ireland
Active from: 1854
Active to: 1900

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Discography

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Listeners: 9,771
Total plays: 169,355

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Quotes

“And down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.”
“Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.”
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
“The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.”
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

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Official website: www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde
Image: Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony. Three-quarter-length photograph, seated.jpg

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Commons category: Oscar Wilde
date of birth: 1854-06-16
date of death: 1900-11-30
Commons gallery: Oscar Wilde
Commons Creator page: Oscar Wilde
birth name: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
start of work period: 1878-00-00
last words: Ou c'est ce papier peint qui disparaît, ou c'est moi.
name in native language: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
pseudonym: Sebastian Melmoth
short name: Oscar Wilde
P8168: Xylophanes titana
end of work period: 1900-01-01
P12749: Johann Ludwig Klüber

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Works in European collections

23 objects attributed to Oscar Wilde, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.

Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde became conversant in French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism during this time, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.