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Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900 / Dublin / Ireland)
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Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, the son of an eye-surgeon and a literary hostess and writer (known under the pseudonym "Speranza"). After studying at Trinity College, Dublin, Wilde went to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he achieved a double first and won the Newdigate prize for a poem Ravenna. more >>
 
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''I have nothing to declare except my genius.''
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Attributed in Oscar Wilde, ch. 6, Richard Ellman (1987). Remark at the New York Customs, ...
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''For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.''
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. repr. In Aristotle at Afternoon Tea: The Rare Oscar Wilde (1991). "London Models," English Il...
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T.P. Edwards (10/12/2007 6:26:00 PM)
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Wilde cryptic word spinning to somewhere in nowhere.
He was no genius, a bewildered poet who thought he was a genius.
Did the poem liberate him or anyone from its cage of flowery words bespeckled with Greek gods and goddesses?
I tend to doubt it. A love for his own intellect, displayful of a pruriant pride in pining.
SS BAGHELA (10/4/2005 9:23:00 AM)
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He was a literary genius. I enjoy his poetry immensely. Conspirative Nature stole his life prematurely.

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