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| | Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Oscar Wilde - |
 | | Wilde’s favourite genres were the society comedy and the play. | | | Wilde is well known for his prose, but also for his quotations, e.g. | | | In 1904 a five-act tragedy, The Duchess of Padua, written by Wilde about 1883 for Mary Anderson, but not acted by her, was published in a German translation (Die Herzogin von Padua, translated by Max Meyerfeld) in Berlin. |
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| | The Long Conversion of Oscar Wilde |
| | Wilde's imprisonment and his alienation from friends and society are clearly at the root of this poem, but while the author's experiences were bitter, the poem is not. | | | Wilde was given conditional Baptism and was anointed. | | | There is a satisfying symmetry to the story of Wilde's celebrity, his arrogance, his fall, and his humble acceptance of redemption, but we should resist the temptation to turn his life into a moral allegory. |
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| | CedarNet: The Oscar Wilde Project |
| | Richard Ellmann writes in his biography, Oscar Wilde, "he was proposing that good and evil are not what they seem, that moral tabs cannot cope with the complexity of behavior." Wilde was a satirist whose wit, commentary, and caricature challenged society. | | | Oscar Wilde and the social system which consumed him could come out of the pages of today's news. | | | The 100th anniversary of "The importance of Being Ernest." Wilde's brilliant comedy, is being celebrated in 1995, and Coyle had the inspired notion that Wilde's controversial life and work might give Iowans historical perspective on issues which seemingly never fade. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Oscar Wilde |
| | Wilde’s most distinctive and engaging plays are the four comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), all characterized by adroitly contrived plots and remarkably witty dialogue. | | | Salomé was also translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas and illustrated by English artist Aubrey Beardsley in 1894. | | | Although the author fully describes the process of corruption, the shocking conclusion of the story frankly commits him to a moral stand against self-debasement. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761573798/Wilde_Oscar.html
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| | story in depth: Oscar Wilde |
| | Wilde was not a handsome fellow to begin with – he was 6’3" tall, flabby, with a face more oval than it ought to be – and now with black teeth, some found him physically repulsive, fancy clothes or not. | | | Though he was certainly aware of the details of the Mary Travers affair, young Oscar was proud of his father, and especially proud to be the son of a knight. | | | Still, Wilde lasted for three years at his post, perhaps because he was finding satisfactions that had nothing to do with his job. |
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| | The Pleasure Dome - Sup's Oscar Wilde Page |
| | Oscar had a desire to make himself famous and set off to London to do just that. | | | Two years later he tired of journalism and jornalists and returned to sparkling at parties and spending much of his time with friends and lovers, often stepping beyond the bounds of what was considered morally and socially proper for the time. | | | Collectively they "forced Victorian society to re-examine its hypocrisies and delineated with wit and humour, the arbitrariness of many moral and social taboos which, to the unreflective Victorian eye, appeared to be eternal. |
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http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/8889/wilde.htm
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| | Oscar Wilde Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com |
| | By 1890, Wilde seemed to have come to the conclusion that the 'evil' in himself could not be controlled, and so explored the theme not within the safe confines of a fairytale, but in a dark, sinister novel with a tragic ending. | | | However, Wilde's tales differ from the norm in that they deal with the evil within human beings rather than as an external force. | | | So, Wilde set forward what was essentially the same message in a social comedy, the play Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), which highlighted the ambiguity of class, nature and evil. |
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| | Oscar Wilde - Uncyclopedia |
| | Oscar "The Pimp" "Wildebeest" Wilde is the penultimate master of the pen, as well as the debate. | | | At one point in his counterfeiting career, Oscar did try to give himself an entry into the Book of Kells, detailing him as a god of ancient Ireland, but William Butler Yeats caught him and, Oscar was sentenced for a season to become a can-can dancer in Las Vegas. | | | Oscar Wilde is, without argument, King of the Quotes. |
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http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde
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| | Knitting Circle Oscar Wilde |
| | Oscar was to compare her intellectually with Elizabeth Barrett Browning and historically with the revolutionary Madame Roland. | | | An engraving of Walter Pater is reproduced in A. | | | There should certainly be a monument to Oscar Wilde in London, the scene of his triumphs and trials and fall. |
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http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/~stafflag/oscarwilde.html
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| | The World of Oscar Wilde by David Claudon |
| | Oscar at right is taken from one of his final photographs, taken in Rome. | | | Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. | | | Consensus seems to be that Constance Wilde knew nothing about her husband's "other life." |
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| | Neurotic Poets: Oscar Wilde |
| | Wilde soon found the tables turned upon himself however as he answered charges made against him from an 1885 law which made "homosexual relations between men" illegal. | | | One man raised his glass and said "The Queen", to which Oscar replied "She is not a subject." | | | The controversy caused when Salome was banned for its portrayal of biblical characters, forbidden under an old rule, only heightened Wilde's reputation as a maverick. |
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http://www.neuroticpoets.com/wilde
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| | Cornell University College of Arts & Sciences News Letter |
| | In them England has written her own indictment against herself and has given the world this history of her shame." This voice, as audible in Wilde's early as in his later writings, is less familiar. | | | The latter allusion evoked recurrent English fears of Anglo-Irish and Anglo-French collusion in real or imagined "papist plots." When Wilde's poems were published his name was linked to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Swinburne and Charles Baudelaire. | | | She has published on Yeats, Wilde, and the late nineteenth century. |
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http://www.arts.cornell.edu/newsletr/spring96/siegel.htm
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| | Wilde, Oscar - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Wilde, Oscar |
| | Wilde explained away their lack of depth by saying that he put his genius into his life and only his talent into his books. | | | A tale of horror, it depicts the corruption of a beautiful young man pursuing an ideal of sensual indulgence and moral indifference; although he himself remains young and handsome, his portrait becomes ugly, reflecting his degeneration. | | | His experiences in jail inspired his most famous poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), and the apology published by his literary executor as De Profundis (1905). |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Wilde,+Oscar
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| | Oscar Wilde - Books and Biography |
| | In a more traditional essay The Soul of a Man Under Socialism (1891) Wilde takes an optimistic view of the road to socialist future. | | | The Picture of Dorian Gray followed in 1890 and next year he brought out more fairy tales. | | | In 1888 he published The Happy Prince and Other Tales, fairy-stories written for his two sons. |
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Oscar Wilde |
| | Wilde's mature work is, however, indebted more to the Pater of Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) called by Wilde “a golden book”, than to the Ruskin of Stones of Venice (1851, 1853). | | | His father was an eye surgeon, knighted for his services to medicine in 1864, who also nurtured an interest in Irish history as a collector of folk tales and customs. | | | / The poet is WILDE, / But his poetry's tame”. |
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| | Oscar Wilde - Wikiquote |
| | Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) Irish playwright, poet, and author of essays and novels. | | | Stillbirth is a sign that God has a sense of humour! | | | Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? |
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| | Oscar Wilde at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources |
| | Wilde's fairy tales are very popular - the motifs have been compared to those of Hans Christian Andersen. | | | Among Wilde's other best-known works are his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which deals very similar theme as Robert Luis Stevenson's Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde. | | | Oscar Wilde is most acclaimed for his comic theatrical masterpieces, particularly The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermere's Fan which feature entertaining plots and witty dialogue. |
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| | SPECTRUM Biographies - Oscar Wilde |
| | In 1892, Wilde published two additional books of fairy tales entitled Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, and Other Stories and A House of Pomegranates. | | | In addition, he published a book of fairy tales entitled The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). | | | Wilde published his first book entitled Poems in 1881. |
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| | glbtq >> literature >> Wilde, Oscar |
| | Although Douglas appears to have been a thoroughly undisciplined young man, utterly unworthy of Wilde's devotion, the writer became so infatuated as to lose all sense of proportion and finally to embark on the course of action that was to culminate in his sentence to two years' penal servitude at hard labor. | | | In The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891), for example, he enunciated a doctrine of libertarian socialism quite at variance with his mask of frivolity. | | | Wilde's antiauthoritarianism and his scorn for the philistinism of his late Victorian age are particularly important aspects of his persona and of his emergence as a symbolic figure, even as they are qualified by his almost equally strong need for social acceptance. |
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| | OSCAR WILDE RETURNS - sound clip of paranormal voice recorded with British medium Leslie Flint |
| | Oscar Wilde came through in the same facetious and sarcastic manner for which he was known whilst on Earth. | | | (Incidentally, George Bernard Shaw was one of the few critics in his lifetime who praised Wilde as 'our only thorough playwright. | | | More money has been made out of my reputation since my death, than ever I was able to make out of my plays, which goes to say that sin is very successful!" |
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| | FireBlade Coffeehouse: Oscar Wilde |
| | Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde is one of the most fascinating and interesting writers Ireland has produced--and his writings are almost as fascinating. | | | This site won’t give you the answers to your high school reading assignment, but it will give you enough questions to make your writing look more intelligent. | | | Wilde the Movie “The story of the first modern man.” Also includes more Wilde links. |
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| | Oscar Wilde |
| | Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. | | | ere children Wilde wrote fairy stories for them that were later published as | | | Wilde sued for libel but he lost his case and was then himself prosecuted an |
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| | Wilde (1997) |
| | It is a story of a romance that was not acceptable in its time and that led to the downfall of one of England's greatest literary figures. | | | Tagline: The story of the first modern man (more) | | | Plot Summary: The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of... |
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| | Oscar Wilde's 1895 Martyrdom |
| | The tide's turning reduced Wilde to: "You sting me and insult me and try to unnerve me; and at times one says things flippantly when one ought to speak more seriously. | | | "He is the grandest man I have ever seen," Wilde told a reporter, "the simplest, most natural, and strongest character I have ever met in my life..." | | | Wilde took the stand on the first day, and at first delighted the court with his wit. |
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| | Oscar Wilde |
| | As with many poets represented here, Wilde's best work was not in the sonnet form. | | | To drift with every passion till my soul | | | For some sonnets about Wilde, see Lionel Johnson and Sir Alfred Douglas. |
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| | Wilde, Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Wilde, Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) |
| | He published Poems (1881), and also wrote fairy tales and other stories, criticism, and a long, anarchic political essay ‘The Soul of Man Under Socialism’ (1891). | | | The long poem Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) and a letter published as De Profundis (1905) were written in jail, and explain his side of the relationship. | | | He published his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in 1891, followed by a series of sharp dramatic comedies, including A Woman of No Importance (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Wilde,+Oscar+(Fingal+O%27Flahertie+Wills)
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| | Oscar Wilde |
| | While at Oxford, Oscar wrote to a friend, saying "God knows, I won't be an Oxford don anyhow, I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. | | | He was influenced by Keats and the idea that beauty is truth and truth beauty. | | | And then at the height of his success his star fell. |
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http://www.thehistorynet.com/bh/bloscarwilde
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| | Wilde, Oscar. 1881. Poems |
| | To drift with every passion till my soul / Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, / Is it for this that I have given away / Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control? | | | Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Verse > Oscar Wilde > Poems |
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| | Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces: An Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Trials of Oscar Wilde |
| | The containment of Wilde himself in prison ultimately failed to contain the radical nature of his commentary. | | | When the verdict of guilty was returned for Oscar Wilde, it represented the violent reassertion of convention in response to the threats posed by his life and art. | | | The books and manuscripts analyzed, interpreted, and displayed are the textual fossil remains of the culture of Oscar Wilde's transgressions and containment--the footsteps of the chameleon. |
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| | Not Green, Not Red, Not Pink |
| | It had taken years to find his true métier, which was theater rather than poetry or fiction, and comedy rather than tragedy. | | | Wilde was back in London for his last first night. | | | Wilde had dined afterward with his friends Max Beerbohm and Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and Lord Alfred Douglas, the captivating young "Bosie," with whom his life had been entwined for more than two years past and with whom he had shortly departed for Algiers and the pursuit of pleasure. |
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| | Chesil's Favourite Poetry - Oscar Wilde |
| | None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one | | | This hot hard flame with which our bodies burn | | | Wilde is rightly best known for his prose and it is sometimes forgotten that he was also a prolific poet. |
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| | Quoteland :: Quotations by Author |
| | But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. | | | As for marriage, of course that would be silly, but there are other and more interesting bonds between men and women. | | | It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. |
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| | Works by Oscar Wilde |
| | Buy more than 2,000 books on a single CD-ROM for only $19.99. | | | Read, write, or comment on essays about Oscar Wilde |
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| | Oscar Wilde Remembered - World Cultures European |
| | After a century, Oscar Wilde has outlived his foes and his own notoriety and he is the curator of his own legend. | | | Wilde was born in Dublin on October 16th, 1854; his father was an eminent surgeon and his mother a talented poet. | | | Despite the scandal and his apparent love for another, his wife, Constance, did not divorce him; but Wilde never saw his two sons again. |
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| | Oscar Wilde - Free Online Library |
| | Shortly after leaving university his first volume of poetry was published. | | | A year later he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a poem inspired by his prison experience. | | | Wilde's time in prison badly damaged his health and he died on November 30, 1900, in Paris, France, three years after leaving prison. |
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| | Famous Irish Lives - Oscar Wilde |
| | Wilde defeated Edward Carson for the foundation scholarship in classics at Trinity College, Dublin, and in 1874 won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was influenced by John Ruskin, Walter Pater and Cardinal Newman. | | | His father was an eminent eye and ear specialist; his mother wrote under the pen-name 'Speranza'. | | | Wilde's wife changed her surname and with her two young sons, moved abroad to escape the scandal. |
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| | Oscar Wilde - Wikimedia Commons |
| | Oscar Wilde with his male lover, Alfred Douglas, before the trial. | | | Wikisource has original works written by or about Oscar Wilde. | | | Keller cartoon from the Wasp of San Francisco depicting Oscar Wilde on the occasion of his visit there in 1882 |
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| | Oscar Wilde - Wilde, Mother & Son, and other stories |
| | Oscar Wilde - Wilde, Mother & Son, and other stories | | | She was "Francesca Speranza Wilde" or just "Speranza" in letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the like -- "Francesca" from her given Frances, and "Speranza" (i.e. | | | Though we may not have or want any conventional explanation for Oscar Wilde's personality, it seems cut from his parents' (or perhaps just his mother's) cloth. |
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| | Oscar Wilde: Tutte le informazioni su Oscar Wilde su Encyclopedia.it |
| | Frequentò l'Università di Oxford, e si distinse brillantemente nello studio dei classici, iniziando a scrivere poesie. | | | Oscar Wilde (Dublino 16 ottobre 1854-Parigi 30 novembre 1900), fu un eccellente letterato, poeta e controverso artista irlandese. | | | Oscar Wilde: Tutte le informazioni su Oscar Wilde su Encyclopedia.it |
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| | The Official Web Site of Oscar Wilde |
| | Oscar Wilde’s rich and dramatic portrayals of the human condition came during the height of the Victorian Era that swept through London in the late 19th century. | | | We work with companies around the world who wish to use his name or likeness in any commercial fashion. | | | At a time when all citizens of Britain were finally able to embrace literature the wealthy and educated could only once afford, Wilde wrote many short stories, plays and poems that continue to inspire millions around the world. |
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| | Monty Python's Oscar Wilde Sketch |
| | Before you arrive is pleasure, and after is a pain in the dong. | | | OSCAR: There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that it not being talked about. | | | OSCAR: There is only one thing worse than playing squash together, and that is playing it by yourself. |
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| | OSCAR from Wilde Technologies |
| | This project will be hosted at Trinity College Dublin and maintained by Stephen Barrett, a TCD academic and co-founder of Wilde Technologies*. | | | This code base is written primarily in c#, and contains about 200k lines of code. | | | This will complete the open source release of OSCAR, making general use and development possible. |
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| | Oscar Wilde - Salome |
| | Browse all Oscar Wilde Texts in the Modern English Collection at UVA |
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| | Oscar Wilde Society |
| | It organises lectures, readings, and discussions about Wilde and his works, and visits to places associated with him. | | | It is a non-profit making organisation which aims to promote knowledge, appreciation and study of Wilde's life, personality, and works. | | | I have always said of Oscar that, like a tall building, or any giant, he grows greater in stature the further we move away from him. |
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| | The Trials of Oscar Wilde |
| | Old Bailey, the main courthouse in London, had never presented a show quite like the three trials that captivated England and much of the literary world in the spring of 1895. | | | Celebrity, sex, witty dialogue, political intrique, surprising twists, and important issues of art and morality--is it any surprise that the trials of Oscar Wilde continue to fascinate one hundred years after the death of one of Ireland's greatest authors and playrights?.... |
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| | Oscar Wilde |
| | A gifted poet, playwright, and wit, Oscar Wilde was a phenomenon in 19th... | | | Wilde (1997) (short story The Selfish Giant) (uncredited) | | | The Story of the Selfish Giant (1998) (TV) |
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| | Technorati Tag: Oscar |
| | Oscar - Print Buy Oscar - Print at SHOP.COM. | | | By Avery It seems as this is the year the "traditional" Award Shows attempt to get with the times. | | | BandBs in Oscar, LA - iLoveInns.com An extensive guide to BandBs in Oscar, LA. Includes photos, reviews, descriptions and more. |
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