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    Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer, poet, and playwright known for his wit and provocative works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray. He was educated at Oxford but deeply influenced by aesthetic philosophers who advocated for art above all else. Wilde faced imprisonment after being accused of homosexual acts, an experience that impacted his later works like De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He spent his final years in exile in France, converting to Catholicism before his death.

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    Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer, poet, and playwright known for his wit and provocative works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray. He was educated at Oxford but deeply influenced by aesthetic philosophers who advocated for art above all else. Wilde faced imprisonment after being accused of homosexual acts, an experience that impacted his later works like De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He spent his final years in exile in France, converting to Catholicism before his death.

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    Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer, poet, and playwright known for his wit and provocative works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray. He was educated at Oxford but deeply influenced by aesthetic philosophers who advocated for art above all else. Wilde faced imprisonment after being accused of homosexual acts, an experience that impacted his later works like De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He spent his final years in exile in France, converting to Catholicism before his death.

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    Oscar Wilde

    Who is Oscar Wilde?


    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (born 16 October
    1854 in Dublin, Ireland) was an Irish writer, poet and
    playwright.
    (Wilde is considered one of the most prominent
    playwrights of late Victorian London; in addition, he was
    a celebrity of the time because of his great and sharpened
    wit.)
    He was educated at home until the age of nine,
    demonstrating remarkable intelligence and a particular
    facility for French and German. Thanks to a grant of 95 £
    annual, the 17 of October of 1874 he entered Magdalen
    College, Oxford, where he continued his studies until
    1878.

    Wilde was deeply influenced by writers John Ruskin and


    Walter Pater, who advocated the central importance of art
    in life.
    (Wilde himself reflected on this point of view when in The
    Picture of Dorian Gray he wrote that «All art is rather
    useless». Indeed, this quote reflects Wilde’s support for
    the basic principle of the aesthetic movement: art for art.)
    On the political plane, Wilde supported a kind of
    libertarian socialism and philosophical anarchism, and
    expounded his ideas in the text "The soul of man under
    socialism".
    (He was a celebrity of the time because of his wit and the
    level of provocation he used, not only in his works, but
    also in his walk: he dressed extravagantly and spared no
    intelligent monologues in every conversation he had.)

    Most important works


    (Among Oscar’s most important works are :)
     The Picture of Dorian Gray
     The Happy Prince
     The Canterville Ghost
     The Selfish Giant
     The Importance Of Being Earnest
     De Profundis
     The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

    Imprisonment
    (In 1895, at the peak of his career, the poet shocked the
    British middle class at the time.)
    Oscar Wilde was a friend of Lord Alfred Douglas, an
    English writer and poet. His father suspected the two of
    them of having an affair. He therefore decided to send him
    a letter:
    "For Oscar Wilde posing Somdomite
    John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry"
    Wilde, encouraged by the complainant’s son, denounced
    him for slander and wielded the amorality of art as a
    defense.
    (Finally, the ninth Marquess of Queensberry was released
    and Wilde faced a second trial in May 1895, in which he
    was charged with "sodomy and serious indecency", and
    sentenced to two years' hard labour.)
    (Left prison in May 1897.)

    Death
    Wilde and Douglas lived together for a few months at
    the end of 1897, near Naples, until the threat from
    their respective families to cut off their funds
    eventually separated them. Wilde spent the rest of his
    life in Paris, where he lived under the false name of
    Sebastian Melmoth. There, and at the hand of an Irish
    priest from the church of Saint Joseph, he would have
    converted to Catholicism, a faith in which he
    supposedly died.

    sentence
    (To conclude, I leave the following sentence)
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts
    are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,
    their passions a quotation.”

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