[82], During the late 1880s, Wilde was a close friend of the artist James McNeill Whistler and they dined together on many occasions. He seemed unrestrained by the Victorian prohibition against homosexuality, and became estranged from his family. [109] Modern critic Robin McKie considered the novel to be technically mediocre, saying that the conceit of the plot had guaranteed its fame, but the device is never pushed to its full. He wore his hair long, openly scorned "manly" sports though he occasionally boxed,[25] and he decorated his rooms with peacock feathers, lilies, sunflowers, blue china and other objets d'art. [203], Wilde was initially buried in the Cimetière de Bagneux outside Paris; in 1909 his remains were disinterred and transferred to Père Lachaise Cemetery, inside the city. [230], Parisian literati, also produced several biographies and monographs on him. [79][80] In October 1889, Wilde had finally found his voice in prose and, at the end of the second volume, Wilde left The Woman's World. [183] Wilde wrote two long letters to the editor of the Daily Chronicle, describing the brutal conditions of English prisons and advocating penal reform. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. This meeting was disapproved of by the friends and families of both men. "[96] In his only political text, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, he argued political conditions should establish this primacy – private property should be abolished, and cooperation should be substituted for competition. I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world ... And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. Lady Windermere's Fan was first performed on 20 February 1892 at St James's Theatre, packed with the cream of society. As a student Wilde worked with Mahaffy on the latter's book Social Life in Greece. This he did in 1878, only briefly visiting Ireland twice after that. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The book only briefly mentioned Wilde's life, but subsequently Ransome (and The Times Book Club) were sued for libel by Lord Alfred Douglas. [123] Wilde was commissioned to write two more plays and An Ideal Husband, written in 1894,[124] followed in January 1895. Answer and Explanation: Oscar Wilde primarily wrote plays, poems,short stories, essays, and other short works. The article alleged that Wilde had a habit of passing off other people's witticisms as his own—especially Whistler's. Stern (2017):758. The extent of the evidence massed against Wilde forced him to declare meekly, "I am the prosecutor in this case". With his youth nearly over, and a family to support, in mid-1887 Wilde became the editor of The Lady's World magazine, his name prominently appearing on the cover. [103], Reviewers immediately criticised the novel's decadence and homosexual allusions; The Daily Chronicle for example, called it "unclean", "poisonous", and "heavy with the mephitic odours of moral and spiritual putrefaction". [15] There the young Wilde and his brother Willie played with George Moore. When first I was put into prison some people advised me to try and forget who I was. [226][227] Thomas Wright's Oscar's Books (2008) explores Wilde's reading from his childhood in Dublin to his death in Paris. [30] Some elements disdained the aesthetes, but their languishing attitudes and showy costumes became a recognised pose. [190], Wilde's final address was at the dingy Hôtel d'Alsace (now known as L'Hôtel), on rue des Beaux-Arts in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. [181] "I intend to be received into the Catholic Church before long", Wilde told a journalist who asked about his religious intentions. How many musical works did Bach write? [209], In 2014 Wilde was one of the inaugural honorees in the Rainbow Honor Walk, a walk of fame in San Francisco's Castro neighbourhood noting LGBTQ people who have "made significant contributions in their fields. "[105] He nevertheless revised it extensively for book publication in 1891: six new chapters were added, some overtly decadent passages and homo-eroticism excised, and a preface was included consisting of twenty two epigrams, such as "Books are well written, or badly written. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. Wilde juxtaposes the executed man and himself with the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves". Guests at their salon included Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Lever, George Petrie, Isaac Butt, William Rowan Hamilton and Samuel Ferguson. "[89] By the end fact and fiction have melded together. 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Wilde's counsel, Sir Edward Clarke, was finally able to get a magistrate to allow Wilde and his friends to post bail. In mid-1881, at 27 years old, he published Poems, which collected, revised and expanded his poems. Inmates there also followed the regimen of "hard labour, hard fare and a hard bed", which wore harshly on Wilde's delicate health. [13] He was one of only three students at Portora to win a Royal School scholarship to Trinity in 1871. "This poverty really breaks one's heart: it is so sale [filthy], so utterly depressing, so hopeless. Both authors later regretted their work. At university, Wilde read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. In addition to his children with his wife, Sir William Wilde was the father of three children born out of wedlock before his marriage: Henry Wilson, born in 1838 to one woman, and Emily and Mary Wilde, born in 1847 and 1849, respectively, to a second woman. 16, Tite Street was duly renovated in seven months at considerable expense. Wilde considered including this pamphlet and The Portrait of Mr. He became more serious in 1878, when he met the Reverend Sebastian Bowden, a priest in the Brompton Oratory who had received some high-profile converts. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.[178]. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an older and a younger man, when the older man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him. At the High Court in London in April 1913 Douglas lost the libel action after a reading of De Profundis refuted his claims. [199] Fr Dunne recorded the baptism, As the voiture rolled through the dark streets that wintry night, the sad story of Oscar Wilde was in part repeated to me... Robert Ross knelt by the bedside, assisting me as best he could while I administered conditional baptism, and afterwards answering the responses while I gave Extreme Unction to the prostrate man and recited the prayers for the dying. Events moved quickly and his prosecution opened on 26 April 1895, before Mr Justice Charles. [12] He excelled academically, particularly in the subject of Classics, in which he ranked fourth in the school in 1869. Wilde stated that the letters had been obtained by blackmailers who had attempted to extort money from him, but he had refused, suggesting they should take the £60 (equal to £7,000 today) offered, "unusual for a prose piece of that length". The anonymous narrator is at first sceptical, then believing, finally flirtatious with the reader: he concludes that "there is really a great deal to be said of the Willie Hughes theory of Shakespeare's sonnets. [1][2] A number of Wilde's letters and manuscripts can also be found at The British Library, as well as public and private collections throughout Britain, the United States and France. There is nothing unnatural about it. Please come". "Carson began by emphasizing that at this point in the novel, Dorian is an 'innocent young man'."). [note 6], Though Wilde's health had suffered greatly from the harshness and diet of prison, he had a feeling of spiritual renewal. [146][147], The libel trial became a cause célèbre as salacious details of Wilde's private life with Taylor and Douglas began to appear in the press. [187] It was an immediate roaring commercial success, going through seven editions in less than two years, only after which "[Oscar Wilde]" was added to the title page, though many in literary circles had known Wilde to be the author. She happened to be visiting Dublin in 1884, when Wilde was lecturing at the Gaiety Theatre. 1 Merrion Square, where Wilde's sister, Isola, was born in 1857. A renowned philanthropist, his dispensary for the care of the city's poor at the rear of Trinity College, Dublin, was the forerunner of the Dublin Eye and Ear Hospital, now located at Adelaide Road. Wilde was not, at first, even allowed paper and pen but Haldane eventually succeeded in allowing access to books and writing materials. He reportedly entertained the other passengers with "Ave Imperatrix!, A Poem on England", about the rise and fall of empires. He took the name "Sebastian Melmoth", after Saint Sebastian and the titular character of Melmoth the Wanderer (a Gothic novel by Charles Maturin, Wilde's great-uncle). "[177] Wilde blamed himself, though, for the ethical degradation of character that he allowed Douglas to bring about in him and took responsibility for his own fall, "I am here for having tried to put your father in prison. 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 for consensual homosexual acts, imprisonment, and early death at age 46. "[195][196] Turner was one of the few of the old circle who remained with Wilde to the end and was at his bedside when he died. Oscar Wilde's essay Impressions of America (complete and corrected). The earliest were memoirs by those who knew him: often they are personal or impressionistic accounts which can be good character sketches, but are sometimes factually unreliable. "[108] Wilde claimed the plot was "an idea that is as old as the history of literature but to which I have given a new form". [170] He spent the remainder of his sentence there, addressed and identified only as "C.3.3" – the occupant of the third cell on the third floor of C ward. ), "Register of the Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle Collection of Papers, 1819-1953", Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf338nb1zb, http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/Clark%20Pages/, Works by or about Oscar Wilde bibliography. [120] The audience, like Lady Windermere, are forced to soften harsh social codes in favour of a more nuanced view. One of us has got to go". The letter was partially published in 1905 as De Profundis; its complete and correct publication first occurred in 1962 in The Letters of Oscar Wilde. [11] At Portora, although he was not as popular as his older brother, Oscar Wilde impressed his peers with the humorous and inventive school stories he told. Oscar Wilde wrote many books, but only one was a novel. [29], While at Magdalen College, Wilde became particularly well known for his role in the aesthetic and decadent movements. [141] Fifteen weeks later Wilde was in prison. [163] The Reverend Stewart Headlam put up most of the £5,000 surety required by the court, having disagreed with Wilde's treatment by the press and the courts. The transfer itself was the lowest point of his incarceration, as a crowd jeered and spat at him on the railway platform. When the National Republican discussed Wilde, it was to explain 'a few items as to the animal's pedigree.' [70], Robert Ross had read Wilde's poems before they met at Oxford in 1886. He could organise and share his views on art, literature and life, yet in a format less tedious than lecturing. [24], Attracted by its dress, secrecy, and ritual, Wilde petitioned the Apollo Masonic Lodge at Oxford, and was soon raised to the "Sublime Degree of Master Mason". Wilde's poem "Requiescat" is written to her memory. Queensberry had planned to insult Wilde publicly by throwing a bouquet of rotting vegetables onto the stage; Wilde was tipped off and had Queensberry barred from entering the theatre. Wilde journeyed on the SS Arizona, arriving 2 January 1882, and disembarking the following day. How many books in total did Geoffrey Chaucer write? In 1877, Wilde was left speechless after an audience with Pope Pius IX in Rome. Neil McKenna's 2003 biography, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, offers an exploration of Wilde's sexuality. [176] It was from these heights that his life with Douglas began, and Wilde examines that particularly closely, repudiating him for what Wilde finally sees as his arrogance and vanity: he had not forgotten Douglas' remark, when he was ill, "When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting. [116] Rehearsals of the play, starring Sarah Bernhardt, began but the play was refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain, since it depicted biblical characters. [208], On 14 February 1995, Wilde was commemorated with a stained-glass window at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. On 25 May 1895 Wilde and Alfred Taylor were convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labour. [45][note 1], With the last of his inheritance from the sale of his father's houses, he set himself up as a bachelor in London. Edward Carson approached Frank Lockwood QC, the Solicitor General and asked "Can we not let up on the fellow now? When Wilde returned to London just before Christmas the Paris Echo referred to him as "le great event" of the season. The rest were plays and collections of poetry, short stories, and letters. From his outsize celebrity in Victorian London to his authorship of fiction, drama, and poetry that uniquely captured his era, it's fair to say that Wilde succeeded on both counts. Premieres at St James's seemed like "brilliant parties", and the opening of The Importance of Being Earnest was no exception. [168], A few months later he was moved to Wandsworth Prison in London. Under the 1843 Libel Act, Queensberry could avoid conviction for libel only by demonstrating that his accusation was in fact true, and furthermore that there was some "public benefit" to having made the accusation openly. After two more trials he was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. Queensberry's handwriting was almost indecipherable: The hall porter initially read "ponce and sodomite", but Queensberry himself claimed that he'd written "posing 'as' a sodomite", an easier accusation to defend in court. Perhaps that is so, and of course, it will be impossible to reproduce what is gone forever. Years later, in De Profundis, Wilde described Pater's Studies... as "that book that has had such a strange influence over my life". [86] "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.", which Wilde had begun in 1887, was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889. Speak gently, she can hear When Wilde eagerly attended Ruskin's lecture series The Aesthetic and Mathematic Schools of Art in Florence, he learned about aesthetics as the non-mathematical elements of painting. [92] Ransome concludes that Wilde succeeds precisely because the literary criticism is unveiled with such a deft touch. [63] In August he briefly returned to New York for the production of Vera, his first play, after it was turned down in London. [9], In 1855, the family moved to No. He once remarked to friends, whom he entertained lavishly, "I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china. Wilde quickly became an established member – the members' suggestion book for 1874 contains two pages of banter (sportingly) mocking Wilde's emergent aestheticism. [77] At the same time as Wilde's interest flagged, the publishers became concerned anew about circulation: sales, at the relatively high price of one shilling, remained low. [188][189] It brought him a small amount of money. [83] Herbert Vivian—a mutual friend of Wilde and Whistler— attended the dinner and recorded it in his article The Reminiscences of a Short Life which appeared in The Sun in 1889. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. [3], William Wilde was Ireland's leading oto-ophthalmologic (ear and eye) surgeon and was knighted in 1864 for his services as medical adviser and assistant commissioner to the censuses of Ireland. The magazine didn't let its reputation for quality impede its expression of what are now considered odious ethnic and racial ideologies. [34] Pater argued that man's sensibility to beauty should be refined above all else, and that each moment should be felt to its fullest extent. The play was enormously popular, touring the country for months, but largely trashed by conservative critics. The scene was witnessed by George Bernard Shaw who recalled it to Arthur Ransome a day or so before Ransome's trial for libelling Douglas in 1913. Mostly set in drawing rooms and almost completely lacking in action or violence, Earnest lacks the self-conscious decadence found in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome. [143] Queensberry's lawyers thus hired private detectives to find evidence of Wilde's homosexual liaisons. "We are dining on the Duchess tonight", Wilde would declare before taking him to an expensive restaurant. Sir William acknowledged paternity of his illegitimate or "natural" children and provided for their education, arranging for them to be reared by his relatives rather than with his legitimate children in his family household with his wife. [204] His tomb there was designed by Sir Jacob Epstein. was a sincere, though flamboyant, attempt to explain the dichotomies the poet saw in himself; one line reads: "To drift with every passion till my soul / Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play". [note 4] Queensberry, who feuded regularly with his son, confronted Wilde and Lord Alfred about the nature of their relationship several times, but Wilde was able to mollify him. [74] Wilde, like his parents before him, also supported the cause of Irish nationalism. [68][69] Although Constance had an annual allowance of £250, which was generous for a young woman (equivalent to about £26,300 in current value), the Wildes had relatively luxurious tastes. He did not wish to bear Queensberry's insults, but he knew to confront him could lead to disaster were his liaisons disclosed publicly. [84], Wilde published The Happy Prince and Other Tales in 1888, and had been regularly writing fairy stories for magazines. Queensberry was found not guilty, as the court declared that his accusation that Wilde was "posing as a Somdomite [sic]" was justified, "true in substance and in fact". [49], Though the book sold out its first print run of 750 copies it was not generally well received by the critics, Punch for example saying "The poet is Wilde, but his poetry's tame". At the same time, he stressed that the government most amenable to artists was no government at all. [87] It is a short story, which reports a conversation, in which the theory that Shakespeare's sonnets were written out of the poet's love of the boy actor "Willie Hughes", is advanced, retracted, and then propounded again. [25] During a resurgent interest in Freemasonry in his third year, he commented he "would be awfully sorry to give it up if I secede from the Protestant Heresy". He had already begged Douglas to leave London for Paris, but Douglas complained bitterly, even wanting to give evidence; he was pressed to go and soon fled to the Hotel du Monde. Oscar Wilde, a critical study by Arthur Ransome was published in 1912. He first entered Newgate Prison in London for processing, then was moved to Pentonville Prison, where the "hard labour" to which he had been sentenced consisted of many hours of walking a treadmill and picking oakum (separating the fibres in scraps of old navy ropes),[167] and where prisoners were allowed to read only the Bible and The Pilgrim's Progress. Wilde reputedly told a customs officer that "I have nothing to declare except my genius", although the first recording of this remark was many years later, and Wilde's best lines were often quoted immediately in the press. The book incorporates rediscovered letters and other documents and is the most extensively researched biography of Wilde to appear since 1988. [185] No attempt is made to assess the justice of the laws which convicted them but rather the poem highlights the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share. Wilde's association with blackmailers and male prostitutes, cross-dressers and homosexual brothels was recorded, and various persons involved were interviewed, some being coerced to appear as witnesses since they too were accomplices to the crimes of which Wilde was accused. [219] In 1954 Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland published his memoir Son of Oscar Wilde, which recounts the difficulties Wilde's wife and children faced after his imprisonment. The world mocks at it, and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it.[161][162]. [115], A tragedy, it tells the story of Salome, the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but mother's delight, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils. [142][note 5] Wilde, encouraged by Douglas and against the advice of his friends, initiated a private prosecution against Queensberry for libel, since the note amounted to a public accusation that Wilde had committed the crime of sodomy. The final trial was presided over by Mr Justice Wills. [7] Davis Coakley mentions a second baptism by a Catholic priest, Father Prideaux Fox, who befriended Oscar's mother circa 1859. Wilde was incarcerated from 25 May 1895 to 18 May 1897. (Dates are dates of first performance, which approximate better to the probable date of composition than dates of publication. [31] Wilde was once physically attacked by a group of four fellow students, and dealt with them single-handedly, surprising critics. "[111], The 1891 census records the Wildes' residence at 16 Tite Street,[112] where he lived with his wife Constance and two sons. If Wilde was relatively indiscreet, even flamboyant, in the way he acted, Douglas was reckless in public. While Wilde won the most laughs from the court, Carson scored the most legal points. At one of these dinners, Whistler said a bon mot that Wilde found particularly witty, Wilde exclaimed that he wished that he had said it, and Whistler retorted "You will, Oscar, you will". [14], Until his early twenties, Wilde summered at the villa, Moytura House, which his father had built in Cong, County Mayo. [36] Ruskin despaired at the self-validating aestheticism of Pater, arguing that the importance of art lies in its potential for the betterment of society. [150], Carson, a fellow Dubliner who had attended Trinity College, Dublin at the same time as Wilde, cross-examined Wilde on how he perceived the moral content of his works. At the height of his fame and success, while The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was still being performed in London, Wilde prosecuted the Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. And outcasts always mourn. Of course, you may think with others that his personality and conversation were far more wonderful than anything he wrote, so that his written works give only a pale reflection of his power. [175] In reflective mode, Wilde coldly examines his career to date, how he had been a colourful agent provocateur in Victorian society, his art, like his paradoxes, seeking to subvert as well as sparkle. Shaw included an account of the argument between Harris, Douglas and Wilde in the preface to his play The Dark Lady of the Sonnets. [40] "Harper's Weekly put a sunflower-worshipping monkey dressed as Wilde on the front of the January 1882 issue. When the church was closed, the records were moved to the nearby St. Ann's Church, Dawson Street. [18] Wilde, despite later reservations, called Mahaffy "my first and best teacher" and "the scholar who showed me how to love Greek things". Whilst Wilde the journalist supplied articles under the guidance of his editors, Wilde the editor was forced to learn to manipulate the literary marketplace on his own terms. Wilde replied that he did not believe in social barriers, and simply enjoyed the society of young men. Wilde wrote to a friend, "The dons are 'astonied' beyond words – the Bad Boy doing so well in the end! Wilde's final play again returns to the theme of switched identities: the play's two protagonists engage in "bunburying" (the maintenance of alternative personas in the town and country) which allows them to escape Victorian social mores. That is all. Later on, I think everyone will recognise his achievements; his plays and essays will endure. Profile of, writings adapted into films and films about Oscar Wilde, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oscar_Wilde_bibliography&oldid=976893702, Short description with empty Wikidata description, Pages using infobox author bibliography with unknown parameters, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "Pen, Pencil and Poison" First published in the, This page was last edited on 5 September 2020, at 18:04. "[106][107], Contemporary reviewers and modern critics have postulated numerous possible sources of the story, a search Jershua McCormack argues is futile because Wilde "has tapped a root of Western folklore so deep and ubiquitous that the story has escaped its origins and returned to the oral tradition. The couple had two sons together, Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan (1886). [173] Wilde requested, among others: the Bible in French; Italian and German grammars; some Ancient Greek texts, Dante's Divine Comedy, Joris-Karl Huysmans's new French novel about Christian redemption En route, and essays by St Augustine, Cardinal Newman and Walter Pater.[174]. The memorial, above the monument to Geoffrey Chaucer, was unveiled by his grandson Merlin Holland, while Sir John Gielgud read from the final part of De Profundis and Dame Judi Dench read an extract from The Importance of Being Earnest. He enjoyed reviewing and journalism; the form suited his style. [207], In 2017, Wilde was among an estimated 50,000 men who were pardoned for homosexual acts that were no longer considered offences under the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967). Between January and March 1897 Wilde wrote a 50,000-word letter to Douglas. "I do not say that you are it, but you look it, and pose at it, which is just as bad. [48], He had been publishing lyrics and poems in magazines since entering Trinity College, especially in Kottabos and the Dublin University Magazine. From his outsize celebrity in Victorian London to his authorship of fiction, drama, and poetry that uniquely captured his era, it's fair to say that Wilde succeeded on both counts. "[139] The first half concludes with Wilde forgiving Douglas, for his own sake as much as Douglas's. Jane Wilde was a niece (by marriage) of the novelist, playwright and clergyman Charles Maturin (1780 – 1824), who may have influenced her own literary career. Fearing persecution, Ross and many others also left the United Kingdom during this time. It would mean that I would always be haunted by an intolerable sense of disgrace, and that those things that are meant for me as much as for anybody else – the beauty of the sun and moon, the pageant of the seasons, the music of daybreak and the silence of great nights, the rain falling through the leaves, or the dew creeping over the grass and making it silver – would all be tainted for me, and lose their healing power, and their power of communicating joy. [186] He adopted the proletarian ballad form and the author was credited as "C33", Wilde's cell number in Reading Gaol. [94] Two of Wilde's four writings on aesthetics are dialogues: though Wilde had evolved professionally from lecturer to writer, he retained an oral tradition of sorts. In 2000, Leon Johnson, a multimedia artist, installed a silver prosthesis to replace them. [14] For his part, Mahaffy boasted of having created Wilde; later, he said Wilde was "the only blot on my tutorship". [139] The Importance of Being Earnest remains his most popular play.[140]. The only evidence for this is two supposed puns within the sonnets themselves.[88]. [134] Though trying to remain calm, Wilde saw that he was becoming ensnared in a brutal family quarrel. [182], He spent his last three years impoverished and in exile. 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). [91] Instead of writing a short but serious essay on the question, Wilde tossed the theory amongst the three characters of the story, allowing it to unfold as background to the plot.
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