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Oscar Wilde, Irish born writer and wit, was the main advocate of the aesthetic movement, based on the standard of art for art’s sake. Oscar Wilde constantly challenged bourgeois Victorian notions of identity; he was the period’s “central chameleon-like figure. ...
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland, and educated in Trinity College in Dublin. While he was still a young child, Wilde was exposed to the literary talk of the say at his mother’s Dublin salon. ...
“The two great turning points in my life,” Oscar Wilde wrote in De Profundis, “were when my father sent me to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison,” (Aldington 433). At Oxford, Wilde, in Richard Ellmann’s words, “created himself,” (Hicks 476). Wilde came under the influence of aesthetic innovators such as English writers Walter Pater and John Ruskin. The Literarae Humaniores of “Greats” program that Wilde studied at Oxford centered on the history, philosophy, and literature of ancient Greece, particularly the work of Plato- but he did not limit himself to its requirements.
While attending Oxford, Wilde was exposed to most of the major intellectual controversies of the day, for the university was constantly a site of considerable questioning.
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