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Oscar Wilde

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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080415
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Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), 1854-1900, Irish author and wit, b. Dublin. He is most famous for his sophisticated, brilliantly witty plays, which were the first since the comedies of Sheridan and Goldsmith to have both dramatic and literary merit. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself for his scholarship and wit, and also for his elegant eccentricity in dress, tastes, and manners. Influenced by the aesthetic teachings of Walter Pater and John Ruskin , Wilde became the center of a group glorifying ...

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