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| Oscar Wilde |
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| 1854–1900, Irish author and wit, b. Dublin. He is most famous for his sophisticated, brilliantly witty plays, which were the first since the comedies of Sheridan and Goldsmith to have both dramatic and literary merit. Influenced by the aesthetic teachings of Walter Pater and John Ruskin, Wilde became the center of a group glorifying beauty for itself alone, and he was satirized with other exponents of “art for art’s sake” in Punch and in Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta Patience. His first published work, Poems (1881), was well received.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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Pronunciation:  w ld from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- Poems
This first of Wilde’s published works served as a springboard for his 1882 United States lecture tour.
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- Bartlett’s Wilde Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Wilde, Oscar, 64283 to 64673
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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