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The Robert Chalmers Interview: WILDE MAN He's written endless poems and books (34 and counting). He's penned songs and devised musicals - including the just opened `Oscar Wilde'. And still everybody thinks of him as the Smashey and Nicey D

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20041017
Author:Robert Chalmers

One of the remarkable things about Oscar Wilde, Mike Read tells me, is the way he became a legend on the basis of "so little output".

"You say `little...'" I suggest to the former DJ.

"Very little output," Read repeats, steering his Porsche through Soho.

Many people - I'm one of them - consider Wilde's legacy (one classic novel, two volumes of fairytales, four comedies, five tragedies, the best part of 100 poems, the critical essays, the epigrams and the 1,200 pages of his extraordinary Collected Letters) to be fairly good going: the more so, given that the bulk of the Irishman's work was ...

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