Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an author, playwright, and wit.
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1845, the son of a surgeon Sir William Wilde, and Jane Francis, a poetess who wrote ferment poems in support of Irish self-government. He was educated at the Trinity College, Dublin first, and then at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he distinguished for his brilliance. Amoung his teachers at Oxford where Ruskin and Peter. From Ruskin he derivated a certain degree of symphaty for the poor and the dowtradden; from Peter, he took the idea of function of art. He was the exponent of the Aesthetic Movement, and he first work, was Poems.

After he wrote a series of tales written for his soons, called The Happy Prince and Others Stories, and also A House of Pomegranates. He had a great succefull whit the drama Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest.The tragedy were:The Duckess of Padua, and Salomè.

He became famous for his moral fable The Picture of Dorian Gray. He fall in love whit "Bosie"(Lord Alfred Douglas), the soon of the Marquis of Quinsberry, that offended Wilde pubblicy and the poet spent six mounth in Wandswort prison, where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Goal, and The Profundis(autobigrafic documents). He died in France in 1900.