viernes, 18 de diciembre de 2015

Oscar wilde

Oscar Wilde was a famous novelist, playwriter and poet in the nineteenth century. He was born on the sixteen of October in 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. His father, William Wilde, was the most famous surgeon specialized in ophthalmologic. Moreover, he wrote books about Irish archaeology and peasant and his mother, Jane Wilde,  was a successful novelist or writer too, and she was best known for being a supporter of the nationalist movement. Furthermore his brother called Willie Wilde was a famous journalist and his sister called Isola died because of meningitis when she was 9 years and Oscar Wilde wrote a poem dedicated to her called "Requiescat" and published in her book "Poems" 1881. In 1871 he studied classics in Trinity College where he met J. P Mahaffy who inspired his interest in Greek Literature and also he met Mahaffy his best professor, according to him and the man who taught him to love Greek things and who created his personality. In 1884 when he had 30 years old he married with Constance Marie Lloyd, a famous novelist too who published a book about children's stories called "There was Once" inspired on stories of her grandmother . They had two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan Wilde. However, Oscar Wilde started an affair with Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas in 1891. But the father's Douglas, John Sholto Douglas, accused him of being homosexual and Oscar Wilde was arrested and also he was sentenced for 2 years in a jail called "Reading". There Wilde wrote "De Profundis" a long letter which describes the spiritual journey that he experienced in his judgments. In that moment his wife Constance Lloyd took their sons to Switzerland and she changed the surnamed of her children to Holland, Cyril and Vyvyan Holland,  by deception and dishonor of Wilde. Meanwhile he stayed in Europe with a delicate and several health. Oscar Wilde died on the thirty of November in 1900 in Paris because of meningitis. 

His most famous works were "The picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Importance of being Earnest". "Lady Windermere's Fan" and "An Ideal husband" were very famous too and the "Sphinx" was his most famous poem.










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