![]() ![]() From an early age, he showed a deep love of learning, seeming able to pick up new subjects and skills with ease. Oscar Wilde was born in 1854, in Ireland. ![]() The biography attempts to paint a comprehensive picture of Wilde that explains why the genius author is now considered essential to the history of British literature. Ellmann illuminates the incredibly difficult conditions that Wilde lived under as a homosexual man, which informed his art, personality, and political views until his tragic death at the age of forty-six. At a young age, Wilde became one of the most popular playwrights in London, while also producing many plays and epigrams. Utilizing a treasure trove of Wilde’s surviving letters and other private writings, Ellmann finds new insights into Wilde’s better-known works, situating him among his contemporaries in fin de siècle, or turn-of-the-century art. Oscar Wilde is a 1969 biography of the English poet, playwright, and aesthetician Oscar Wilde by American literary critic Richard Ellmann. ![]()
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