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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 a poet, playwright, short story writer, and children's writer associated with the Aestheticism and Decadent movement. He was born in Dublin in 1854 and died in Paris on November 30, 1900. His notable works include The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Canterville Ghost, and The Soul of Man under Socialism. He was educated at Magdalen College and Trinity College, Dublin.

Wilde was married to Constance Lloyd, and they had two children, Vyvyan Holland and Cyril Holland. He is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery. His citizenship included the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and France. He spoke English, French, Latin, and Ancient Greek. His father was William Wilde and his mother was Jane Wilde.

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Writing · Dublin, Ireland

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…

Known for

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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Music · MusicBrainz

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

has german audiobooks

Discography

Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 9,771
Total plays: 169,355

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Design and validation of a histological scoring system for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease†
· 2005 · cited 9,477x
Nivolumab versus Docetaxel in Advanced Nonsquamous Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
· 2015 · cited 7,895x
2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
· 2021 · cited 5,856x
nuScenes: A Multimodal Dataset for Autonomous Driving
· 2020 · cited 5,710x
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,579x

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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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Works in European collections

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

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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