Oscar Wilde Research Paper

Oscar Wilde is a very well known author, playwright, and poet for his highly complimented works. These include The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as many other plays and poems. He is known around the world for his wit, exuberant style and notorious imprisonment for homosexuality. Oscar Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin and was a very well liked literary figure in the late Victorian England times.

In his early life, Wilde’s father was a doctor who traveled a lot, and specialized in ear and eye diseases. In 1844,William Wilde founded St. Mark’s Ophthalmic Hospital, built entirely at his own expense because he felt the urge to provide free treatment of the city's poor population who could not

Oscar Wilde did extremely well in school and excelled in oxford. He was especially exceptional in the classics courses. He was awarded multiple scholarships such as the Royal School Scholarship, the Foundation Scholarship, the Demyship scholarship, and even a Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek. After graduation, He moved in with his painter friend, Frank Miles in London and published his first collection of poetry in 1881. This collection received many mixed reviews from critics, and assisted in pushing his career in writing forward. In December 1881, Oscar sailed to New York to do many lectures on aesthetics all across the United States. His tour of lectured was only scheduled to last four months, but ended up lasting almost an entire year. He delivered over 140 lectures in 260 days. Wilde also arranged for his play, “Vera,” to be performed in New York the next year. When he returned home from America, he spent the next three months in Paris writing a blank-verse tragedy that they had recruited the actress Mary Anderson for, whom turned it down after he sent it to

She was knowledgeable, spoke several European languages and had an extremely outspoken, freethinking mind. Oscar and Constance had two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan. He obtained a job at the Woman's World magazine from 1887-1889 in order to support his family, and those next six years are known as his most creative period of his life. He published many of his works including: two collections of children's stories, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888), and The House of Pomegranates (1892). He also published The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, in 1890 in an American magazine which he received a lot of criticism