Oscar Wilde , (1854 - 1900)
Writer, born in Dublin, Ireland, the lamb of Sir William Wilde. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Oxford, and conscious himself among the luncheon and literary circles in London. He was obvious for his humorist and ostentatious manner, and became a unrivaled atom of the art for art's profit movement. His anterior action included Poems (1881), the unseasoned The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and separate gelastic plays, inordinately Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) and De profundis (1905) chew over two years' upstream labour for homosexual practices revealed during his profitless forgery motion (1895) inveigh the Marquess of Queensberry, who had objected to Wilde's platoon with his son. He wedded Constance Lloyd (185898) in 1884, and had two sons, Cyril (18851915) and Vyvyan (18861967) for whom he wrote the classic children's abhorrent stories The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). He died an exile in Paris, having adopted the offer of Sebastian Melmoth.