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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.
Even Oscar Browning, a personal friend whom Wilde had asked to review the book, complained in The Academy that "the story, as far as there is one, is most repulsive", and that "Mr Wilde has no magic to veil the hideousness of a sensuality which feeds on statues and dead bodies", while conceding that the poem had "music, beauty, imagination and ...
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.
Salome by Oscar Wilde, a play written in 1891 and first produced in 1896, has been analysed by numerous literary critics, and has prompted numerous derivatives. The play depicts the events leading to the execution of Iokanaan ( John the Baptist ) at the instigation of Salome , step-daughter of Herod Antipas , and her death on Herod's orders.
The title-page of the first edition of The Sphinx, with decorations by Charles Ricketts. The Sphinx is a 174-line poem by Oscar Wilde, written from the point of view of a young man who questions the Sphinx in lurid detail on the history of her sexual adventures, before finally renouncing her attractions and turning to his crucifix.
Homosexuality was illegal in 1890s United Kingdom. Wilde had a relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, a younger man, whose father wanted it to end.Following a failed private prosecution for criminal libel that Wilde brought against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry for statements he had made accusing Wilde of sodomy, Wilde was charged with "committing acts of gross indecency with ...
Oscar Wilde, a gay writer of the 19th century who included allusions to homosexuality in works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde was jailed for homosexual relations in 1895. Wilde was jailed for homosexual relations in 1895.
The trial of Oscar Wilde marked the end of the period when proponents of "Greek love" could hope to legitimate homosexuality by appeals to a classical model. [ 3 ] : 159–160 During the cross examination, Wilde defended his statement that "pleasure is the only thing one should live for," by acknowledging: "I am, on that point, entirely on the ...