LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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His career ended when he was jailed for criminal “gross indecency.”
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He believed that art should be something more than the reproduction and appreciation of the natural world.
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Wilde was the author of such poems as “Bénédiction, ” “L’Albatros, ” and “élévation.”
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He was notorious for his use of paradox.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Born in Dublin on 16 October 1854, Oscar Wilde was a flamboyant and sparklingly witty Anglo-Irish playwright, poet and critic. ‘I put all my genius into my life, I put only my talent into my books’, he said to the French writer André Gide.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the most popular and controversial literary figures of the 19th century, Oscar Wilde was a celebrated playwright, poet and novelist, famous for his satire and sharp wit. He was an unconventional figure of his day, well known for his colourful and flamboyant style both in prose and in dress.
Detailed explanation-3: -He believed in ‘art for art’s sake’ While at Trinity, and later at the University of Oxford’s Magdalen College (which he attended between 1874 to 1878), Wilde was known for his support of aestheticism – an intellectual movement which centred on the idea that art should not exist for any other motive other than beauty.
Detailed explanation-4: -Oscar Wilde emerged in late nineteenth century London as the living embodiment of the Aesthetic movement. He won fame as a dramatist, poet and novelist whose ideas on art, beauty and personal freedom formed a formidable challenge to Victorian puritanicalism.