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Critics Hated ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray.’ Oscar Wilde Had a Perfect Response - MSN
Oscar Wilde was an author, playwright, and poet in late Victorian England known for The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Originally from Ireland, he began writing poetry ...
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British Library to symbolically reinstate Oscar Wilde's reader pass 130 years on
After 130 years, the British Library will symbolically reinstate the reader pass that belonged to the renowned poet and ...
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Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a work of art activism beloved by Banksy - The Conversation
In 2021, Banksy revealed a mural of Oscar Wilde, clad in prisoner garb, making an escape from the abandoned Reading jail.The artist claimed that he would donate profits from the sale of the ...
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DEATH OF OSCAR WILDE; He Expires at an Obscure Hotel in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Is Said to Have Died from Meningitis, but There Is a Rumor that He Committed Suicide. - The ...
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1856. He was the son of Sir William R. Wills Wilde, M. D., surgeon-oculist to Queen Victoria, ... Wilde's poems were first published in 1881, ...