Oscar Wilde
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 Oscar Wilde facts

• After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s
• He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death
• Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals
• Their son became fluent in French and German early in life
• At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford
• He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin
• After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles
• As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist
• Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day
• At the turn of 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 Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)