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Nothing to declare but his genius Cartoon of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde, seated on the left, poses with his arm around Lord Alfred Douglas, who is seated beside him holding a hat, both wearing suits at Oxford in 1893. Oscar Wilde, 1882
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Irish author Oscar Wilde, photograph (albumen silver print)by Napoleon Sarony, 1882.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Irish wit, poet, and dramatist Oscar Wilde, 1882.

Oscar Wilde

Irish author
Also known as: C.3.3., Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, Sebastian Melmoth(Show More)
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Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Editor of Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890's; Oscar Wilde: The Critical Heritage.
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Oscar Wilde (born October 16, 1854, Dublin, Ireland—died November 30, 1900, Paris, France) was an Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose enduring fame rests on his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). In his comedies he proved himself to be a master of the epigram. He was a spokesman for the late 19th-century Aesthetic movement in England,...

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