Oscar Wilde

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Understanding Oscar Wilde: His life, works, and death

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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Nothing to declare but his genius

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish wit, poet, and dramatist Oscar Wilde, 1882.

Nothing to declare but his genius

Nothing to declare but his genius

Oscar Wilde, 1882.

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Cartoon of Oscar Wilde

Cartoon of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde, cartoon in Punch, March 5, 1892.

From Punch, or The London Charivari, March 5, 1892

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.

Wilde and Bosie

Oscar Wilde (left) with his lover, English poet Lord Alfred (“Bosie”) Douglas, 1893.

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Oscar Wilde, 1882

Oscar Wilde, 1882

Works by the great Irish wit are part of the canon of classical dark academia literature.

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