Oscar Wilde

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Standard Name: Wilde, Oscar
Birth Name: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
OW 's significance as poet, playwright, and writer of prose fiction, remained in eclipse for many years after his notorious trial and imprisonment in Reading Gaol , events whose chilling impact on poetry and prose in England was not reversed until the modernists returned to the struggle for unfettered aesthetic expression. A leading proponent of art for art's sake in England, OW was a follower of Walter Pater , from whose work he borrows in lavish quantity, and, like Pater, he was much influenced by the French l'art pour l'art poets, notably Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier .
Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press.
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More recently, his brilliant aesthetic essays have drawn serious attention as the basis for many critical propositions . . . which we like to attribute to more ponderous names.
Ellmann, Richard, editor. The Critic as Artist: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde. Random House.
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His notoriety as a casualty of oppressive laws against the practice of homosexuality is also the subject of a good deal of recent critical comment.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence George Egerton
GE 's realism was influenced by the Scandinavian authors she had read while living in Norway, including Ibsen , Strindberg , and Björnson .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Ledger, Sally. The New Woman. Manchester University Press.
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Mix, Katherine Lyon. A Study in Yellow: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="j">The Yellow Book</span> and Its Contributors. Greenwood Press.
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Yet her work was also informed by the...
Friends, Associates Violet Fane
VF made her mark on London's social life. She knew Robert Browning , Algernon Swinburne , Alexander William Kinglake , Alfred Austin , the Duchess of Argyll , James McNeil Whistler , and Lillie Langtry
Literary responses Violet Fane
Oscar Wilde wrote to request a copy so that he could review it for The Woman's World.
Wilde, Oscar. The Letters of Oscar Wilde. Editor Hart-Davis, Rupert, Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Textual Features Violet Fane
Titles include Hazely Heath (a sonnet which had first appeared in the inaugural issue of Wilde 's The Woman's World in November 1887) and The Mer-Baby (which Wilde persuaded her to contribute in August 1888)...
Literary responses Violet Fane
Oscar Wilde called Hazely Heatha beautiful gem.
Wilde, Oscar. The Letters of Oscar Wilde. Editor Hart-Davis, Rupert, Rupert Hart-Davis.
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According to Dorothea Mosley Thompson 's entry in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, many of these poems address the trite themes of the period (which...
Education U. A. Fanthorpe
She later called her boarding school (where she was sent by her parents because of the heavy wartime bombing in their home area) inadequate,
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
and likened its staff to Oscar Wilde 's Lady Bracknell...
Literary responses Florence Farr
Dorothy Shakespear commented on the novel in a letter to Ezra Pound : Such a Sargasso Sea muddle. Every body divorced several times, & in the end going back to their originals: & a young...
Textual Production Michael Field
Oscar Wilde , William Archer , and John Gray were in the audience on the opening night.
Field, Michael. “Introduction”. Sight and Song; with, Underneath the Bough, edited by R. K. R. Thornton and Ian Small, Woodstock Books.
Wilde had written to the authors with casting advice. He suggested they should have the theatre's founder, J. T. Grein
Literary responses Michael Field
George Meredith thought the play would act well but added this criticism: I do not find in your dramatic prose the complete ring that there is in the sound and volume of your blank verse...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michael Field
Both Edith and Katharine contributed to this extraordinary journal, giving their impressions of travel, art, religion, death, and love. They also record encounters with their literary contemporaries, including Robert Browning , George Meredith , John Ruskin
Friends, Associates Michael Field
Katharine and Edith Cooper shared a great many distinguished friends in the worlds of literature and aesthetics: Walter Pater , Oscar Wilde , Arthur Symons , Charles Shannon , Sarianna Browning , Thomas Sturge Moore
Intertextuality and Influence Michael Field
From 1890 (when they were introduced to Walter Pater and attended, along with Oscar Wilde and Arthur Symons , a lecture he gave) Katharine and Edith were deeply influenced in their writing by Pater.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
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Literary responses Michael Field
In a letter, George Meredith called MF 's characterization of Mary an arresting study..
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
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He said he hoped that neither woman had been wounded by a most unjust review in the press.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
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Friends, Associates Julia Frankau
Through her brother James, she moved in intellectual circles that included George Moore and Oscar Wilde .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Intertextuality and Influence Julia Frankau
The title-page quotes And each man kills the thing he loves . . . , from Wilde 's recent The Ballad of Reading Gaol. The title comes from a phrase applied by a snobbish...

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