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This classic collection of essays and excepts from Oscar Wilde includes: THE TOMB OF KEATS, KEATS'S SONNET ON BLUE, DINNERS AND DISHES, SHAKESPEARE ON SCENERY, and 'HENRY THE FOURTH' AT OXFORD, among many others. THE TOMB OF KEATS KEATS'S SONNET ON BLUE DINNERS AND DISHES SHAKESPEARE ON SCENERY 'HENRY THE FOURTH' AT OXFORD A HANDBOOK TO MARRIAGE TO READ OR NOT TO READ THE LETTERS OF A GREAT WOMAN BERANGER IN ENGLAND THE POETRY OF THE PEOPLE 'THE CENCI' BALZAC IN ENGLISH BEN JONSON MR. SYMONDS' HISTORY MR. MORRIS'S 'ODYSSEY' RUSSIAN NOVELISTS 48 MR. PATER'S 'IMAGINARY PORTRAITS' A GERMAN PRINCESS 'A VILLAGE TRAGEDY' MR. MORRIS'S COMPLETION OF THE 'ODYSSEY' MRS. SOMERVILLE ARISTOTLE AT AFTERNOON TEA EARLY CHRISTIAN ART IN IRELAND MADAME RISTORI ENGLISH POETESSES VENUS OR VICTORY M. CARO ON GEORGE SAND A FASCINATING BOOK HENLEY'S POEMS SOME LITERARY LADIES POETRY AND PRISON THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WALT WHITMAN IRISH FAIRY TALES MR. W. B. YEATS MR. YEATS'S 'WANDERINGS OF OISIN' MR. WILLIAM MORRIS'S LAST BOOK SOME LITERARY NOTES MR. SWINBURNE'S 'POEMS AND BALLADS' (Third Series) A CHINESE SAGE MR. PATER'S 'APPRECIATIONS' SENTENTIAE

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Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency, imprisonment, and early death at age 46. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. 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 Trinity College 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 interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, 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 what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray(1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French while in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, while The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was still being performed in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry prosecuted for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men. After two more trials he was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour

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