Biography of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

*Oscar Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin . He was an Irish writer, author of some of the most brilliant essays and comedies in English. At 17 he won an entrance scholarship to Trinity college, Dublin, were he gained a scholarship to Magdalene, college oxford. He left oxford for London in 1878 and quickly became a popular topic of conversation consening the strage clothes he wore and the odd poses he adopted as an aesthete.

Questions

1. What did he inspire to write a Picture of Dorian Gray?

2. Do you think that his life was difficult? Why?

3. Why did he leave Oxford?

4. Name one of his brilliant essays.

5. Do you think that one of his books will be interesting? Why?

Oscar Wilde was born on october 16, 1854 and he die november 30, 1990 in Paris, Irish wt poet, and dramatist whose reputation rest on his comic masterpieces. lady windermer´s fan 1892 and the importance of being earnest 1895 he was a spokesman for the late 19th century aesthetic movement in England, which advocated art for art´s sake, and he was the object of celebrated civil imprisonment 1895-1897. In 1884 Wilde married Constance Lloyd. daughter of a prominent Irish barruster, two children Cyril and Vyuyan were born in 1885.

Dublin, 1854 - Paris, 1900) British writer. Son of surgeon-William Wills Wilde and the writer Joana Elgee, Oscar Wilde was a quiet and uneventful childhood. He studied at the Royal School of Portorosa Euniskillen, at Trinity College Dublin and later at Magdalen College, Oxford, which remained in the center between 1874 and 1878 and which received the Newdigate Prize for poetry, which enjoyed great prestige at the time. Oscar Wilde combined his studies with travel (in 1877 he visited Italy and Greece), while published in several newspapers and magazines his first poems, which were collected in 1881 in Poems. The following year he undertook a trip to the United States, where offered a series of lectures on his theory about the philosophy of aesthetics, which defended the idea of "art for art 'and which provided the foundation for what later was called dandismo.

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