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The love that dare not speak its name is a phrase from the last line of the poem "Two Loves" by Lord Alfred Douglas, written in September 1892 and published in the Oxford magazine The Chameleon in December 1894.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde [a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.
Wilde's antimimetic philosophy has also influenced later Irish writers, including Brian Friel. Halliwell asserts that the idea that life imitates art derives from classical notions that can be traced as far back as the writings of Aristophanes of Byzantium , and does not negate mimesis but rather "displace[s] its purpose onto the artlike ...
— Oscar Wilde, "The Relation of Dress to Art: A Note in Black and White on Mr. Whistler's Lecture", Pall Mall Gazette, February 28, 1885. If you read the entire short piece, you'll find that it is only about art (plus fashion, which Wilde took to be a vulgarization of art) and its relation to modernity.
Oscar Wilde wrote that "travel improves the mind" — and we couldn't agree more.
Wilde presents the essay as a Socratic dialogue between two characters, Vivian and Cyril, who are named after his own sons. [1] Their conversation, while playful and whimsical, promotes Wilde's view of Aestheticism over Realism. [2] [3] Vivian tells Cyril of an article he has been writing called "The Decay of Lying: A Protest". According to ...
The soul is wiser than we are, writes Wilde, it is the concentrated racial experience revealed by the imagination. Criticism is above reason, sincerity and fairness; it is necessarily subjective. It is increasingly more to criticism than to creation that future belongs as its subject matter and the need to impose form on chaos constantly increases.
The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde, the last of his four drawing-room plays, following Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893) and An Ideal Husband (1895).