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Oscar Wilde

2007-07-25T06:06:27Z

Aridous:

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'''Oscar Wilde''' (1854 – 1900) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] poet, novelist, and writer of plays and short stories.

==Biography==

His father was a surgeon and founder of a hospital in Dublin, and his mother was a writer who was active in the early movement for women's rights. Wilde studied at Trinity College Dublin and Magdalen College Oxford, receiving his BA in 1878.

Wilde married Constance Lloyd in 1884, and they had two sons, but the relationship ended in 1893. Wilde then had a romantic relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, which eventually led to a conviction for [[homosexuality]] and indecency in 1895 for which he was sentenced to two years hard labor. He later wrote ''The Ballad of [[Reading]] Gaol'' and ''De Profundis'' about his experiences in prison.

Wilde died in 1900, three years after his release from prison. In the past he was thought to have died of syphilis, but more recent studies by Dr Ashley Robins of the University of Cape Town in South Africa report that he died of meningoencephalitis, following a serious ear infection. <ref>http://classiclit.about.com/cs/profileswriters/p/aa_oscarwilde.htm</ref>

==Wilde's Sexuality==

Wilde's sexual orientation has been debated over the years and some considered him as either bisexual, homosexual, and even paederastic. Wilde himself believed that he belonged to a culture of male love inspired by the Greek paederastic tradition. This tradition believed that it was an adult male's duty to bring boys into manhood via sexuality.

In describing his own sexual identity, Wilde used the term Socratic. He may have had significant sexual relationships with Frank Miles, Constance Lloyd (Wilde's wife), Robert Baldwin Ross, and Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde also had numerous sexual encounters with working-class male youths, who were often called rent boys.

His homosexuality (or claim of such culture) has sent him many a visit to prison as homosexuality in Europe was illegal and punishable.

==Wit==

Wilde was a well known playwright and celebrity, and is still renowned for his wit today. Some of his lines in stories such as ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' are still often quoted:

''"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."''

Other memorable lines from ''The Critic as Artist'' include:

''"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."''

''"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."''

''"There is no sin except stupidity."''

''"...nothing worth knowing can be taught."''

Wilde's most frequently-produced play is the high comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. This includes such gems as:

''"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."''

''"London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."''

''"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"''

==Works of Oscar Wilde==

===Plays===

* Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
* Salomé (French version) (1893, first performed in Paris 1896)
* A Woman of No Importance (1893)
* An Ideal Husband (1895)
* The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
* Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
* The Duchess of Padua (1883)
* Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley (1894)
* La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy Fragmentary. First published 1908 in Methuen's Collected Works

(Dates are dates of first performance, which approximate better with the probable date of composition than dates of publication)

===Poetry===

* Ravenna (1878)
* Poems (1881)
* The Sphinx (1894)
* The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

===Prose===

* The Canterville Ghost (1887)
* The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888, fairy tales)
* Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891)
* Intentions (1891, critical dialogues and essays)
* The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891, Wilde's only novel)
* The Soul of Man under Socialism (First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1891, first book publication 1904)
* De Profundis (1905)
* The Rise of Historical Criticism (published in incomplete form 1905 and completed form in 1908)
* The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1960) This was rereleased in 2000, with letters uncovered since 1960, and new, detailed, footnotes by Merlin Holland.
* Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal (Paris, 1893) has been attributed to Wilde, but was more likely a combined effort by a several of Wilde's friends, which he may have edited.

==References==
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[[Category:Authors|Wilde, Oscar]]

Talk:Oscar Wilde

2007-07-25T06:05:44Z

Aridous:

Can someone split up the "other" works into novels/novellas, poetry, children's books, essays, etc? I'd start, but unless it's finished the result would be a mess. [[User:Human|Human]] 17:25, 15 April 2007 (EDT)

Done. ~ [[User: Aridous|Aridous]]13.01, 2July07

For what it's worth, I find this an excellent article. Many Americans who may not have heard of Oscar Wilde, or only know the more salacious aspects of his life, may remember the Bing Crosby reading of his " The Happy Prince". [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 03:50, 18 May 2007 (EDT)

Thank you, I've attempted to clean this up rather nicely. Also, there is no proof og absolution that I have found so I will be delteing that bit from the article. --[[User:Aridous|Aridous]] 02:05, 25 July 2007 (EDT)

== Sexuality ==

If a section is going to be added on his sexuality, complete with interesting allegations, it should really be sourced. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 01:44, 3 July 2007 (EDT)

Edgar Allan Poe

2007-07-09T23:34:37Z

Aridous: /* Poetry (1824) */

Insert non-formatted text here'''Edgar Allan Poe''' is a famous American poet and author known for his dark and morbid themes.

==Works==

===Poetry===
==Poetry (1824)==

=O, Tempora! O, Mores! (1825)=
=Song (1827)=
=Imitation (1827)=
=Spirits of the Dead (1827)=
=A Dream (1827)=
=Stanzas (1827)=
=Tamerlane (1827)=
=The Lake (1827)=
=Evening Star (1827)=
=A Dream (1827)=
=To Margaret (1827)=
=The Happiest Day (1827)=
=To The River —— (1828)=
=Romance (1829)=
=Fairy-Land (1829)=
=To Science (1829)=
=To Isaac Lea (1829)=
=Al Aaraaf (1829)=
=An Acrostic (1829)=
=Elizabeth (1829)=
=To Helen (1831) =
=A Paean (1831)=
=The Sleeper (1831)=
=The City in the Sea (1831)=
=The Valley of Unrest (1831) =
=Israfel (1831)=
=The Coliseum (1833)=
=Enigma (1833)=
=Fanny (1833)=
=Serenade (1833)=
=Song of Triumph from Epimanes (1833)=
=Latin Hymn (1833)=
=To One in Paradise (1833)=
=Hymn (1835)=
=Politician (1835)=
=May Queen Ode (1836) =
=Spiritual Song (1836) =
=Bridal Ballad (1837) =
=To Zante (1837) =
=The Haunted Palace (1839) =
=Silence, a Sonnet (1839) =
=Lines on Joe Locke (1843) =
=The Conqueror Worm (1843)
=Lenore (1843) =
=Eulalie (1843) =
=A Campaign Song (1844) =
=Dream-Land (1844) =
=Impromptu. To Kate Carol (1845)=
=To Frances (1845)=
=The Divine Right of Kings (1845) =
=Epigram for Wall Street (1845) =
=The Raven (1845) =
=A Valentine (1846) =
=Beloved Physician (1847) =
=An Enigma (1847) =
=Deep in Earth (1847)=
=Ulalume (1847) =
=Lines on Ale (1848) =
=To Marie Louise (1848) =
=Evangeline (1848) =
=A Dream Within A Dream (1849) =
=Eldorado (1849) =
=For Annie (1849) =
=The Bells (1849) =
=Annabel Lee (1849) =
=Alone (1875)=

===Tales===

Metzengerstein (1832)
The Duc De L'Omelette (1832)
A Tale of Jerusalem (1832)
Loss of Breath (1832)
Bon-Bon (1832)
MS. Found in a Bottle (1833)
The Assignation (1834)
Berenice (1835)
Morella (1835)
Lionizing (1835)
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835)
King Pest (1835)
Shadow - A Parable (1835)
Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard (1836)
Mystification (1837)
Silence - A Fable (1837)
Ligeia (1838)
How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)
A Predicament (1838)
The Devil in the Belfry (1839)
The Man That Was Used Up (1839)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
William Wilson (1839)
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839)
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1840)
The Business Man (1840)
The Man of the Crowd (1840)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
A Descent into the Maelstrom (1841)
The Island of the Fay (1841)
The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841)
Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841)
Eleonora (1841)
Three Sundays in a Week (1841)
The Oval Portrait (1842)
The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
The Landscape Garden (1842)
The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
The Gold-Bug (1843)
The Black Cat (1843)
Diddling (1843)
The Spectacles (1844)
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)
The Premature Burial (1844)
Mesmeric Revelation (1844)
The Oblong Box (1844)
The Angel of the Odd (1844)
Thou Art the Man (1844)
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844)
The Purloined Letter (1844)
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845)
Some Words with a Mummy (1845)
The Power of Words (1845)
The Imp of the Perverse (1845)
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) • The Sphinx (1846)
The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
The Domain of Arnheim (1847)
Mellonta Tauta (1849)
Hop-Frog (1849)
Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849)
X-ing a Paragrab (1849)
Landor's Cottage (1849)

===Essays===

Maelzel's Chess Player (1836)
The Daguerreotype (1840)
The Philosophy of Furniture (1840)
A Few Words on Secret Writing (1841)
The Rationale of Verse (1843)
Morning on the Wissahiccon (1844)
Old English Poetry (1845)
The Philosophy of Composition (1846)
The Poetic Principle (1846)
Eureka (1848)

===Hoaxes===
The Balloon-Hoax (1844)

===Novels===
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1837)
The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)

===Plays===

Scenes From 'Politian' (1835)

===Others===

The Conchologist's First Book (1839)
The Light-House (1849)

Edgar Allan Poe

2007-07-09T23:34:09Z

Aridous: /* Poetry */

Insert non-formatted text here'''Edgar Allan Poe''' is a famous American poet and author known for his dark and morbid themes.

==Works==

===Poetry===
=Poetry (1824)=
=O, Tempora! O, Mores! (1825)=
=Song (1827)=
=Imitation (1827)=
=Spirits of the Dead (1827)=
=A Dream (1827)=
=Stanzas (1827)=
=Tamerlane (1827)=
=The Lake (1827)=
=Evening Star (1827)=
=A Dream (1827)=
=To Margaret (1827)=
=The Happiest Day (1827)=
=To The River —— (1828)=
=Romance (1829)=
=Fairy-Land (1829)=
=To Science (1829)=
=To Isaac Lea (1829)=
=Al Aaraaf (1829)=
=An Acrostic (1829)=
=Elizabeth (1829)=
=To Helen (1831) =
=A Paean (1831)=
=The Sleeper (1831)=
=The City in the Sea (1831)=
=The Valley of Unrest (1831) =
=Israfel (1831)=
=The Coliseum (1833)=
=Enigma (1833)=
=Fanny (1833)=
=Serenade (1833)=
=Song of Triumph from Epimanes (1833)=
=Latin Hymn (1833)=
=To One in Paradise (1833)=
=Hymn (1835)=
=Politician (1835)=
=May Queen Ode (1836) =
=Spiritual Song (1836) =
=Bridal Ballad (1837) =
=To Zante (1837) =
=The Haunted Palace (1839) =
=Silence, a Sonnet (1839) =
=Lines on Joe Locke (1843) =
=The Conqueror Worm (1843)
=Lenore (1843) =
=Eulalie (1843) =
=A Campaign Song (1844) =
=Dream-Land (1844) =
=Impromptu. To Kate Carol (1845)=
=To Frances (1845)=
=The Divine Right of Kings (1845) =
=Epigram for Wall Street (1845) =
=The Raven (1845) =
=A Valentine (1846) =
=Beloved Physician (1847) =
=An Enigma (1847) =
=Deep in Earth (1847)=
=Ulalume (1847) =
=Lines on Ale (1848) =
=To Marie Louise (1848) =
=Evangeline (1848) =
=A Dream Within A Dream (1849) =
=Eldorado (1849) =
=For Annie (1849) =
=The Bells (1849) =
=Annabel Lee (1849) =
=Alone (1875)=

===Tales===

Metzengerstein (1832)
The Duc De L'Omelette (1832)
A Tale of Jerusalem (1832)
Loss of Breath (1832)
Bon-Bon (1832)
MS. Found in a Bottle (1833)
The Assignation (1834)
Berenice (1835)
Morella (1835)
Lionizing (1835)
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835)
King Pest (1835)
Shadow - A Parable (1835)
Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard (1836)
Mystification (1837)
Silence - A Fable (1837)
Ligeia (1838)
How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)
A Predicament (1838)
The Devil in the Belfry (1839)
The Man That Was Used Up (1839)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
William Wilson (1839)
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839)
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1840)
The Business Man (1840)
The Man of the Crowd (1840)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
A Descent into the Maelstrom (1841)
The Island of the Fay (1841)
The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841)
Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841)
Eleonora (1841)
Three Sundays in a Week (1841)
The Oval Portrait (1842)
The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
The Landscape Garden (1842)
The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
The Gold-Bug (1843)
The Black Cat (1843)
Diddling (1843)
The Spectacles (1844)
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)
The Premature Burial (1844)
Mesmeric Revelation (1844)
The Oblong Box (1844)
The Angel of the Odd (1844)
Thou Art the Man (1844)
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844)
The Purloined Letter (1844)
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845)
Some Words with a Mummy (1845)
The Power of Words (1845)
The Imp of the Perverse (1845)
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) • The Sphinx (1846)
The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
The Domain of Arnheim (1847)
Mellonta Tauta (1849)
Hop-Frog (1849)
Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849)
X-ing a Paragrab (1849)
Landor's Cottage (1849)

===Essays===

Maelzel's Chess Player (1836)
The Daguerreotype (1840)
The Philosophy of Furniture (1840)
A Few Words on Secret Writing (1841)
The Rationale of Verse (1843)
Morning on the Wissahiccon (1844)
Old English Poetry (1845)
The Philosophy of Composition (1846)
The Poetic Principle (1846)
Eureka (1848)

===Hoaxes===
The Balloon-Hoax (1844)

===Novels===
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1837)
The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)

===Plays===

Scenes From 'Politian' (1835)

===Others===

The Conchologist's First Book (1839)
The Light-House (1849)

Edgar Allan Poe

2007-07-03T02:43:32Z

Aridous:

Insert non-formatted text here'''Edgar Allan Poe''' is a famous American poet and author known for his dark and morbid themes.

==Works==

===Poetry===
Poetry (1824)
O, Tempora! O, Mores! (1825)
Song (1827)
Imitation (1827)
Spirits of the Dead (1827)
A Dream (1827)
Stanzas (1827)
Tamerlane (1827)
The Lake (1827)
Evening Star (1827)
A Dream (1827)
To Margaret (1827)
The Happiest Day (1827)
To The River —— (1828)
Romance (1829)
Fairy-Land (1829)
To Science (1829)
To Isaac Lea (1829)
Al Aaraaf (1829)
An Acrostic (1829)
Elizabeth (1829)
To Helen (1831)
A Paean (1831)
The Sleeper (1831)
The City in the Sea (1831)
The Valley of Unrest (1831)
Israfel (1831)
The Coliseum (1833)
Enigma (1833)
Fanny (1833)
Serenade (1833)
Song of Triumph from Epimanes (1833)
Latin Hymn (1833)
To One in Paradise (1833)
Hymn (1835)
Politician (1835)
May Queen Ode (1836)
Spiritual Song (1836)
Bridal Ballad (1837)
To Zante (1837)
The Haunted Palace (1839)
Silence, a Sonnet (1839)
Lines on Joe Locke (1843)
The Conqueror Worm (1843)
Lenore (1843)
Eulalie (1843)
A Campaign Song (1844)
Dream-Land (1844)
Impromptu. To Kate Carol (1845)
To Frances (1845)
The Divine Right of Kings (1845)
Epigram for Wall Street (1845)
The Raven (1845)
A Valentine (1846)
Beloved Physician (1847)
An Enigma (1847)
Deep in Earth (1847)
Ulalume (1847)
Lines on Ale (1848)
To Marie Louise (1848)
Evangeline (1848)
A Dream Within A Dream (1849)
Eldorado (1849)
For Annie (1849)
The Bells (1849)
Annabel Lee (1849)
Alone (1875)

===Tales===

Metzengerstein (1832)
The Duc De L'Omelette (1832)
A Tale of Jerusalem (1832)
Loss of Breath (1832)
Bon-Bon (1832)
MS. Found in a Bottle (1833)
The Assignation (1834)
Berenice (1835)
Morella (1835)
Lionizing (1835)
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835)
King Pest (1835)
Shadow - A Parable (1835)
Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard (1836)
Mystification (1837)
Silence - A Fable (1837)
Ligeia (1838)
How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)
A Predicament (1838)
The Devil in the Belfry (1839)
The Man That Was Used Up (1839)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
William Wilson (1839)
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839)
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1840)
The Business Man (1840)
The Man of the Crowd (1840)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
A Descent into the Maelstrom (1841)
The Island of the Fay (1841)
The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841)
Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841)
Eleonora (1841)
Three Sundays in a Week (1841)
The Oval Portrait (1842)
The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
The Landscape Garden (1842)
The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
The Gold-Bug (1843)
The Black Cat (1843)
Diddling (1843)
The Spectacles (1844)
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)
The Premature Burial (1844)
Mesmeric Revelation (1844)
The Oblong Box (1844)
The Angel of the Odd (1844)
Thou Art the Man (1844)
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844)
The Purloined Letter (1844)
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845)
Some Words with a Mummy (1845)
The Power of Words (1845)
The Imp of the Perverse (1845)
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) • The Sphinx (1846)
The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
The Domain of Arnheim (1847)
Mellonta Tauta (1849)
Hop-Frog (1849)
Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849)
X-ing a Paragrab (1849)
Landor's Cottage (1849)

===Essays===

Maelzel's Chess Player (1836)
The Daguerreotype (1840)
The Philosophy of Furniture (1840)
A Few Words on Secret Writing (1841)
The Rationale of Verse (1843)
Morning on the Wissahiccon (1844)
Old English Poetry (1845)
The Philosophy of Composition (1846)
The Poetic Principle (1846)
Eureka (1848)

===Hoaxes===
The Balloon-Hoax (1844)

===Novels===
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1837)
The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)

===Plays===

Scenes From 'Politian' (1835)

===Others===

The Conchologist's First Book (1839)
The Light-House (1849)

Edgar Allan Poe

2007-07-03T02:43:04Z

Aridous:

<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here'''Edgar Allan Poe''' is a famous American poet and author known for his dark and morbid themes.

==Works==

===Poetry===
Poetry (1824)
O, Tempora! O, Mores! (1825)
Song (1827)
Imitation (1827)
Spirits of the Dead (1827)
A Dream (1827)
Stanzas (1827)
Tamerlane (1827)
The Lake (1827)
Evening Star (1827)
A Dream (1827)
To Margaret (1827)
The Happiest Day (1827)
To The River —— (1828)
Romance (1829)
Fairy-Land (1829)
To Science (1829)
To Isaac Lea (1829)
Al Aaraaf (1829)
An Acrostic (1829)
Elizabeth (1829)
To Helen (1831)
A Paean (1831)
The Sleeper (1831)
The City in the Sea (1831)
The Valley of Unrest (1831)
Israfel (1831)
The Coliseum (1833)
Enigma (1833)
Fanny (1833)
Serenade (1833)
Song of Triumph from Epimanes (1833)
Latin Hymn (1833)
To One in Paradise (1833)
Hymn (1835)
Politician (1835)
May Queen Ode (1836)
Spiritual Song (1836)
Bridal Ballad (1837)
To Zante (1837)
The Haunted Palace (1839)
Silence, a Sonnet (1839)
Lines on Joe Locke (1843)
The Conqueror Worm (1843)
Lenore (1843)
Eulalie (1843)
A Campaign Song (1844)
Dream-Land (1844)
Impromptu. To Kate Carol (1845)
To Frances (1845)
The Divine Right of Kings (1845)
Epigram for Wall Street (1845)
The Raven (1845)
A Valentine (1846)
Beloved Physician (1847)
An Enigma (1847)
Deep in Earth (1847)
Ulalume (1847)
Lines on Ale (1848)
To Marie Louise (1848)
Evangeline (1848)
A Dream Within A Dream (1849)
Eldorado (1849)
For Annie (1849)
The Bells (1849)
Annabel Lee (1849)
Alone (1875)

===Tales===

Metzengerstein (1832)
The Duc De L'Omelette (1832)
A Tale of Jerusalem (1832)
Loss of Breath (1832)
Bon-Bon (1832)
MS. Found in a Bottle (1833)
The Assignation (1834)
Berenice (1835)
Morella (1835)
Lionizing (1835)
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835)
King Pest (1835)
Shadow - A Parable (1835)
Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard (1836)
Mystification (1837)
Silence - A Fable (1837)
Ligeia (1838)
How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)
A Predicament (1838)
The Devil in the Belfry (1839)
The Man That Was Used Up (1839)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
William Wilson (1839)
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839)
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1840)
The Business Man (1840)
The Man of the Crowd (1840)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
A Descent into the Maelstrom (1841)
The Island of the Fay (1841)
The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841)
Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841)
Eleonora (1841)
Three Sundays in a Week (1841)
The Oval Portrait (1842)
The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
The Landscape Garden (1842)
The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
The Gold-Bug (1843)
The Black Cat (1843)
Diddling (1843)
The Spectacles (1844)
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)
The Premature Burial (1844)
Mesmeric Revelation (1844)
The Oblong Box (1844)
The Angel of the Odd (1844)
Thou Art the Man (1844)
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844)
The Purloined Letter (1844)
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845)
Some Words with a Mummy (1845)
The Power of Words (1845)
The Imp of the Perverse (1845)
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) • The Sphinx (1846)
The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
The Domain of Arnheim (1847)
Mellonta Tauta (1849)
Hop-Frog (1849)
Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849)
X-ing a Paragrab (1849)
Landor's Cottage (1849)

===Essays===

Maelzel's Chess Player (1836)
The Daguerreotype (1840)
The Philosophy of Furniture (1840)
A Few Words on Secret Writing (1841)
The Rationale of Verse (1843)
Morning on the Wissahiccon (1844)
Old English Poetry (1845)
The Philosophy of Composition (1846)
The Poetic Principle (1846)
Eureka (1848)

===Hoaxes===
The Balloon-Hoax (1844)

===Novels===
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1837)
The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)

===Plays===

Scenes From 'Politian' (1835)

===Others===

The Conchologist's First Book (1839)
The Light-House (1849)

Gothic

2007-07-02T23:13:32Z

Aridous:

Gothic is a term used to describe objects, and ideas such as art and literature.

It should be noted that people who are gothic should not be pointed out as such. I.E. "Look at that gothic." Gothic is an adjective not an noun. The proper way to say it is. "Look at the goth." It's common with the game played by other goths known as Spot-the-Goth.

==See Also==
*[[Gothic Culture]]
*[[Gothic Music]]
*[[Neo-Gothic Art]]

Oscar Wilde

2007-07-02T22:57:03Z

Aridous: /* Plays */

[[Image:Ngcfht.jpg|right|thumb]]

'''Oscar Wilde''' (1854 – 1900) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] poet, novelist, and writer of plays and short stories.

==Biography==

His father was a surgeon and founder of a hospital in Dublin, and his mother was a writer who was active in the early movement for women's rights. Wilde studied at Trinity College Dublin and Magdalen College Oxford, receiving his BA in 1878.

Wilde married Constance Lloyd in 1884, and they had two sons, but the relationship ended in 1893. Wilde then had a romantic relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, which eventually led to a conviction for [[homosexuality]] and indecency in 1895 for which he was sentenced to two years hard labor. He later wrote ''The Ballad of [[Reading]] Gaol'' and ''De Profundis'' about his experiences in prison.

Wilde died in 1900, three years after his release from prison. In the past he was thought to have died of syphilis, but more recent studies by Dr Ashley Robins of the University of Cape Town in South Africa report that he died of meningoencephalitis, following a serious ear infection. <ref>http://classiclit.about.com/cs/profileswriters/p/aa_oscarwilde.htm</ref>

Friends who visited him during the last days of his life have reported several versions of his 'dying words', including:

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go."
"I am dying beyond my means."
"I can’t even afford to die."<ref>http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/w/wilde/oscar_wilde.htm</ref>

As he was dying, he received [[absolution]] from a [[Roman Catholic]] priest, Father Cuthbert Dunne.

==Wilde's Sexuality==

Wilde's sexual orientation has been debated over the years and some considered him as either bisexual, homosexual, and even paederastic. Wilde himself believed that he belonged to a culture of male love inspired by the Greek paederastic tradition. This tradition believed that it was an adult male's duty to bring boys into manhood via sexuality.

In describing his own sexual identity, Wilde used the term Socratic. He may have had significant sexual relationships with Frank Miles, Constance Lloyd (Wilde's wife), Robert Baldwin Ross, and Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde also had numerous sexual encounters with working-class male youths, who were often called rent boys.

His homosexuality (or claim of such culture) has sent him many a visit to prison as homosexuality in Europe was illegal and punishable.

==Wit==

Wilde was a well known playwright and celebrity, and is still renowned for his wit today. Some of his lines in stories such as ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' are still often quoted:

''"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."''

Other memorable lines from ''The Critic as Artist'' include:

''"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."''

''"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."''

''"There is no sin except stupidity."''

''"...nothing worth knowing can be taught."''

Wilde's most frequently-produced play is the high comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. This includes such gems as:

''"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."''

''"London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."''

''"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"''

==Works of Oscar Wilde==

===Plays===

* Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
* Salomé (French version) (1893, first performed in Paris 1896)
* A Woman of No Importance (1893)
* An Ideal Husband (1895)
* The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
* Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
* The Duchess of Padua (1883)
* Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley (1894)
* La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy Fragmentary. First published 1908 in Methuen's Collected Works

(Dates are dates of first performance, which approximate better with the probable date of composition than dates of publication)

===Poetry===

* Ravenna (1878)
* Poems (1881)
* The Sphinx (1894)
* The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

===Prose===

* The Canterville Ghost (1887)
* The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888, fairy tales)
* Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891)
* Intentions (1891, critical dialogues and essays)
* The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891, Wilde's only novel)
* The Soul of Man under Socialism (First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1891, first book publication 1904)
* De Profundis (1905)
* The Rise of Historical Criticism (published in incomplete form 1905 and completed form in 1908)
* The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1960) This was rereleased in 2000, with letters uncovered since 1960, and new, detailed, footnotes by Merlin Holland.
* Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal (Paris, 1893) has been attributed to Wilde, but was more likely a combined effort by a several of Wilde's friends, which he may have edited.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Authors|Wilde, Oscar]]

Gothic

2007-07-02T20:57:01Z

Aridous:

Gothic is a term used to describe objects, and ideas. It should be noted that people who are gothic should not be pointed out as such. I.E. "Look at that gothic." Gothic is an adhective not an noun. The proper way to say it is. "Look at the goth." It's common with the game played by other goths known as Spot-the-Goth.

==See Also==
*[[Gothic Culture]]
*[[Gothic Music]]
*[[Neo-Gothic Art]]

Talk:Oscar Wilde

2007-07-02T20:02:01Z

Aridous:

Oscar Wilde

2007-07-02T19:59:25Z

Aridous:

[[Image:Ngcfht.jpg|right|thumb]]

'''Oscar Wilde''' (1854 – 1900) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] poet, novelist, and writer of plays and short stories.

==Biography==

His father was a surgeon and founder of a hospital in Dublin, and his mother was a writer who was active in the early movement for women's rights. Wilde studied at Trinity College Dublin and Magdalen College Oxford, receiving his BA in 1878.

Wilde married Constance Lloyd in 1884, and they had two sons, but the relationship ended in 1893. Wilde then had a romantic relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, which eventually led to a conviction for [[homosexuality]] and indecency in 1895 for which he was sentenced to two years hard labor. He later wrote ''The Ballad of [[Reading]] Gaol'' and ''De Profundis'' about his experiences in prison.

Wilde died in 1900, three years after his release from prison. In the past he was thought to have died of syphilis, but more recent studies by Dr Ashley Robins of the University of Cape Town in South Africa report that he died of meningoencephalitis, following a serious ear infection. <ref>http://classiclit.about.com/cs/profileswriters/p/aa_oscarwilde.htm</ref>

Friends who visited him during the last days of his life have reported several versions of his 'dying words', including:

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go."
"I am dying beyond my means."
"I can’t even afford to die."<ref>http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/w/wilde/oscar_wilde.htm</ref>

As he was dying, he received [[absolution]] from a [[Roman Catholic]] priest, Father Cuthbert Dunne.

==Wilde's Sexuality==

Wilde's sexual orientation has been debated over the years and some considered him as either bisexual, homosexual, and even paederastic. Wilde himself believed that he belonged to a culture of male love inspired by the Greek paederastic tradition. This tradition believed that it was an adult male's duty to bring boys into manhood via sexuality.

In describing his own sexual identity, Wilde used the term Socratic. He may have had significant sexual relationships with Frank Miles, Constance Lloyd (Wilde's wife), Robert Baldwin Ross, and Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde also had numerous sexual encounters with working-class male youths, who were often called rent boys.

His homosexuality (or claim of such culture) has sent him many a visit to prison as homosexuality in Europe was illegal and punishable.

==Wit==

Wilde was a well known playwright and celebrity, and is still renowned for his wit today. Some of his lines in stories such as ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' are still often quoted:

''"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."''

Other memorable lines from ''The Critic as Artist'' include:

''"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."''

''"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."''

''"There is no sin except stupidity."''

''"...nothing worth knowing can be taught."''

Wilde's most frequently-produced play is the high comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. This includes such gems as:

''"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."''

''"London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."''

''"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"''

==Works of Oscar Wilde==

===Plays===

* Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
* A Woman of No Importance (1893)
* An Ideal Husband (1895)
* The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
* Salomé (French version) (1893, first performed in Paris 1896)
* Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
* The Duchess of Padua (1883)
* Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley (1894)
* La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy Fragmentary. First published 1908 in Methuen's Collected Works

(Dates are dates of first performance, which approximate better with the probable date of composition than dates of publication)

===Poetry===

* Ravenna (1878)
* Poems (1881)
* The Sphinx (1894)
* The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

===Prose===

* The Canterville Ghost (1887)
* The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888, fairy tales)
* Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891)
* Intentions (1891, critical dialogues and essays)
* The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891, Wilde's only novel)
* The Soul of Man under Socialism (First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1891, first book publication 1904)
* De Profundis (1905)
* The Rise of Historical Criticism (published in incomplete form 1905 and completed form in 1908)
* The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1960) This was rereleased in 2000, with letters uncovered since 1960, and new, detailed, footnotes by Merlin Holland.
* Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal (Paris, 1893) has been attributed to Wilde, but was more likely a combined effort by a several of Wilde's friends, which he may have edited.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Authors|Wilde, Oscar]]

Oscar Wilde

2007-07-02T19:58:41Z

Aridous:

[[Image:Ngcfht.jpg|right|thumb]]

'''Oscar Wilde''' (1854 – 1900) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] poet, novelist, and writer of plays and short stories.

==Biography==

His father was a surgeon and founder of a hospital in Dublin, and his mother was a writer who was active in the early movement for women's rights. Wilde studied at Trinity College Dublin and Magdalen College Oxford, receiving his BA in 1878.

Wilde married Constance Lloyd in 1884, and they had two sons, but the relationship ended in 1893. Wilde then had a romantic relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, which eventually led to a conviction for [[homosexuality]] and indecency in 1895 for which he was sentenced to two years hard labor. He later wrote ''The Ballad of [[Reading]] Gaol'' and ''De Profundis'' about his experiences in prison.

Wilde died in 1900, three years after his release from prison. In the past he was thought to have died of syphilis, but more recent studies by Dr Ashley Robins of the University of Cape Town in South Africa report that he died of meningoencephalitis, following a serious ear infection. <ref>http://classiclit.about.com/cs/profileswriters/p/aa_oscarwilde.htm</ref>

Friends who visited him during the last days of his life have reported several versions of his 'dying words', including:

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go."
"I am dying beyond my means."
"I can’t even afford to die."<ref>http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/w/wilde/oscar_wilde.htm</ref>

As he was dying, he received [[absolution]] from a [[Roman Catholic]] priest, Father Cuthbert Dunne.

==Wilde's Sexuality==

Wilde's sexual orientation has been debated over the years and some considered him as either bisexual, homosexual, and even paederastic. Wilde himself believed that he belonged to a culture of male love inspired by the Greek paederastic tradition. This tradition believed that it was an adult male's duty to bring boys into manhood via sexuality.

In describing his own sexual identity, Wilde used the term Socratic. He may have had significant sexual relationships with Frank Miles, Constance Lloyd (Wilde's wife), Robert Baldwin Ross, and Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde also had numerous sexual encounters with working-class male youths, who were often called rent boys.

His homosexuality (or claim of such culture) has sent him many a visit to prison as homosexuality in Europe was illegal and punishable.

==Wit==

Wilde was a well known playwright and celebrity, and is still renowned for his wit today. Some of his lines in stories such as ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' are still often quoted:

''"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."''

Other memorable lines from ''The Critic as Artist'' include:

''"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."''

''"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."''

''"There is no sin except stupidity."''

''"...nothing worth knowing can be taught."''

Wilde's most frequently-produced play is the high comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. This includes such gems as:

''"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."''

''"London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."''

''"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"''

==Works of Oscar Wilde==

===Plays===

* Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
* A Woman of No Importance (1893)
* An Ideal Husband (1895)
* The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
* Salomé (French version) (1893, first performed in Paris 1896)
* Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
* The Duchess of Padua (1883)
* Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley (1894)
* La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy Fragmentary. First published 1908 in Methuen's Collected Works

(Dates are dates of first performance, which approximate better with the probable date of composition than dates of publication)

==Poetry==

* Ravenna (1878)
* Poems (1881)
* The Sphinx (1894)
* The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

==Prose==

* The Canterville Ghost (1887)
* The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888, fairy tales)
* Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891)
* Intentions (1891, critical dialogues and essays)
* The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891, Wilde's only novel)
* The Soul of Man under Socialism (First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1891, first book publication 1904)
* De Profundis (1905)
* The Rise of Historical Criticism (published in incomplete form 1905 and completed form in 1908)
* The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1960) This was rereleased in 2000, with letters uncovered since 1960, and new, detailed, footnotes by Merlin Holland.
* Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal (Paris, 1893) has been attributed to Wilde, but was more likely a combined effort by a several of Wilde's friends, which he may have edited.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Authors|Wilde, Oscar]]

Oscar Wilde

2007-07-02T19:53:05Z

Aridous: /* Plays */

[[Image:Ngcfht.jpg|right|thumb]]

'''Oscar Wilde''' (1854 – 1900) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] poet, novelist, and writer of plays and short stories.

==Biography==

His father was a surgeon and founder of a hospital in Dublin, and his mother was a writer who was active in the early movement for women's rights. Wilde studied at Trinity College Dublin and Magdalen College Oxford, receiving his BA in 1878.

Wilde married Constance Lloyd in 1884, and they had two sons, but the relationship ended in 1893. Wilde then had a romantic relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, which eventually led to a conviction for [[homosexuality]] and indecency in 1895 for which he was sentenced to two years hard labor. He later wrote ''The Ballad of [[Reading]] Gaol'' and ''De Profundis'' about his experiences in prison.

Wilde died in 1900, three years after his release from prison. In the past he was thought to have died of syphilis, but more recent studies by Dr Ashley Robins of the University of Cape Town in South Africa report that he died of meningoencephalitis, following a serious ear infection. <ref>http://classiclit.about.com/cs/profileswriters/p/aa_oscarwilde.htm</ref>

Friends who visited him during the last days of his life have reported several versions of his 'dying words', including:

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go."
"I am dying beyond my means."
"I can’t even afford to die."<ref>http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/w/wilde/oscar_wilde.htm</ref>

As he was dying, he received [[absolution]] from a [[Roman Catholic]] priest, Father Cuthbert Dunne.

==Wilde's Sexuality==

Wilde's sexual orientation has been debated over the years and some considered him as either bisexual, homosexual, and even paederastic. Wilde himself believed that he belonged to a culture of male love inspired by the Greek paederastic tradition. This tradition believed that it was an adult male's duty to bring boys into manhood via sexuality.

In describing his own sexual identity, Wilde used the term Socratic. He may have had significant sexual relationships with Frank Miles, Constance Lloyd (Wilde's wife), Robert Baldwin Ross, and Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde also had numerous sexual encounters with working-class male youths, who were often called rent boys.

His homosexuality (or claim of such culture) has sent him many a visit to prison as homosexuality in Europe was illegal and punishable.

==Wit==

Wilde was a well known playwright and celebrity, and is still renowned for his wit today. Some of his lines in stories such as ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' are still often quoted:

''"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."''

Other memorable lines from ''The Critic as Artist'' include:

''"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."''

''"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."''

''"There is no sin except stupidity."''

''"...nothing worth knowing can be taught."''

Wilde's most frequently-produced play is the high comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. This includes such gems as:

''"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."''

''"London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."''

''"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"''

==Works of Oscar Wilde==

===Plays===

* Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
* A Woman of No Importance (1893)
* An Ideal Husband (1895)
* The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
* Salomé (French version) (1893, first performed in Paris 1896)
* Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
* The Duchess of Padua (1883)
* Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley (1894)
* La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy Fragmentary. First published 1908 in Methuen's Collected Works

(Dates are dates of first performance, which approximate better with the probable date of composition than dates of publication)

===Other Works===

* The Canterville Ghost
* The Happy Prince
* Lord Arthur Saville's Crime
* Intentions
* The Picture of Dorian Gray
* A House of Pomegranates
* The Soul of Man under Socialism
* Ballad of Reading Gaol
* De Profundis
* The Rise of Historical Criticism
* The Letters of Oscar Wilde

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Authors|Wilde, Oscar]]

Oscar Wilde

2007-07-02T19:49:19Z

Aridous: /* Wilde's Sexuality */

[[Image:Ngcfht.jpg|right|thumb]]

'''Oscar Wilde''' (1854 – 1900) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] poet, novelist, and writer of plays and short stories.

==Biography==

His father was a surgeon and founder of a hospital in Dublin, and his mother was a writer who was active in the early movement for women's rights. Wilde studied at Trinity College Dublin and Magdalen College Oxford, receiving his BA in 1878.

Wilde married Constance Lloyd in 1884, and they had two sons, but the relationship ended in 1893. Wilde then had a romantic relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, which eventually led to a conviction for [[homosexuality]] and indecency in 1895 for which he was sentenced to two years hard labor. He later wrote ''The Ballad of [[Reading]] Gaol'' and ''De Profundis'' about his experiences in prison.

Wilde died in 1900, three years after his release from prison. In the past he was thought to have died of syphilis, but more recent studies by Dr Ashley Robins of the University of Cape Town in South Africa report that he died of meningoencephalitis, following a serious ear infection. <ref>http://classiclit.about.com/cs/profileswriters/p/aa_oscarwilde.htm</ref>

Friends who visited him during the last days of his life have reported several versions of his 'dying words', including:

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go."
"I am dying beyond my means."
"I can’t even afford to die."<ref>http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/w/wilde/oscar_wilde.htm</ref>

As he was dying, he received [[absolution]] from a [[Roman Catholic]] priest, Father Cuthbert Dunne.

==Wilde's Sexuality==

Wilde's sexual orientation has been debated over the years and some considered him as either bisexual, homosexual, and even paederastic. Wilde himself believed that he belonged to a culture of male love inspired by the Greek paederastic tradition. This tradition believed that it was an adult male's duty to bring boys into manhood via sexuality.

In describing his own sexual identity, Wilde used the term Socratic. He may have had significant sexual relationships with Frank Miles, Constance Lloyd (Wilde's wife), Robert Baldwin Ross, and Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde also had numerous sexual encounters with working-class male youths, who were often called rent boys.

His homosexuality (or claim of such culture) has sent him many a visit to prison as homosexuality in Europe was illegal and punishable.

==Wit==

Wilde was a well known playwright and celebrity, and is still renowned for his wit today. Some of his lines in stories such as ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' are still often quoted:

''"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."''

Other memorable lines from ''The Critic as Artist'' include:

''"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."''

''"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."''

''"There is no sin except stupidity."''

''"...nothing worth knowing can be taught."''

Wilde's most frequently-produced play is the high comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. This includes such gems as:

''"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."''

''"London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."''

''"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"''

==Works of Oscar Wilde==

===Plays===

* Lady Windermere's Fan
* A Woman of No Importance
* An Ideal Husband
* The Importance of Being Earnest
* Salomé

===Other Works===

* The Canterville Ghost
* The Happy Prince
* Lord Arthur Saville's Crime
* Intentions
* The Picture of Dorian Gray
* A House of Pomegranates
* The Soul of Man under Socialism
* Ballad of Reading Gaol
* De Profundis
* The Rise of Historical Criticism
* The Letters of Oscar Wilde

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Authors|Wilde, Oscar]]

Oscar Wilde

2007-07-02T19:45:47Z

Aridous:

[[Image:Ngcfht.jpg|right|thumb]]

'''Oscar Wilde''' (1854 – 1900) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] poet, novelist, and writer of plays and short stories.

==Biography==

His father was a surgeon and founder of a hospital in Dublin, and his mother was a writer who was active in the early movement for women's rights. Wilde studied at Trinity College Dublin and Magdalen College Oxford, receiving his BA in 1878.

Wilde married Constance Lloyd in 1884, and they had two sons, but the relationship ended in 1893. Wilde then had a romantic relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, which eventually led to a conviction for [[homosexuality]] and indecency in 1895 for which he was sentenced to two years hard labor. He later wrote ''The Ballad of [[Reading]] Gaol'' and ''De Profundis'' about his experiences in prison.

Wilde died in 1900, three years after his release from prison. In the past he was thought to have died of syphilis, but more recent studies by Dr Ashley Robins of the University of Cape Town in South Africa report that he died of meningoencephalitis, following a serious ear infection. <ref>http://classiclit.about.com/cs/profileswriters/p/aa_oscarwilde.htm</ref>

Friends who visited him during the last days of his life have reported several versions of his 'dying words', including:

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go."
"I am dying beyond my means."
"I can’t even afford to die."<ref>http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/w/wilde/oscar_wilde.htm</ref>

As he was dying, he received [[absolution]] from a [[Roman Catholic]] priest, Father Cuthbert Dunne.

==Wilde's Sexuality==

Wilde's sexual orientation has been debated over the years and some considered him as either bisexual, homosexual, and paederastic. Wilde himself felt he belonged to a culture of male love inspired by the Greek paederastic tradition. This tradition believed that it was an adult male's duty to bring boys into manhood via sexuality. In describing his own sexual identity, Wilde used the term Socratic. He may have had significant sexual relationships with Frank Miles, Constance Lloyd (Wilde's wife), Robert Baldwin Ross, and Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde also had numerous sexual encounters with working-class male youths, who were often called rent boys.

==Wit==

Wilde was a well known playwright and celebrity, and is still renowned for his wit today. Some of his lines in stories such as ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' are still often quoted:

''"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."''

Other memorable lines from ''The Critic as Artist'' include:

''"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."''

''"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."''

''"There is no sin except stupidity."''

''"...nothing worth knowing can be taught."''

Wilde's most frequently-produced play is the high comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. This includes such gems as:

''"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."''

''"London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."''

''"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"''

==Works of Oscar Wilde==

===Plays===

* Lady Windermere's Fan
* A Woman of No Importance
* An Ideal Husband
* The Importance of Being Earnest
* Salomé

===Other Works===

* The Canterville Ghost
* The Happy Prince
* Lord Arthur Saville's Crime
* Intentions
* The Picture of Dorian Gray
* A House of Pomegranates
* The Soul of Man under Socialism
* Ballad of Reading Gaol
* De Profundis
* The Rise of Historical Criticism
* The Letters of Oscar Wilde

==References==
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[[Category:Authors|Wilde, Oscar]]