Oscar Wilde Biography

He was borned the 16 of October of 1854, in Dublin.

British writer. Son of surgeon-William Wills Wilde and the writer Joana Elgee, Oscar Wilde was a quiet and uneventful childhood. He studied at the Royal School of Portorosa Euniskillen, at Trinity College in Dublin and later at Magdalen College, Oxford, which remained in the center between 1874 and 1878 and which received the Newdigate Prize for poetry, which was highly prestige at the time. Oscar Wilde combined his university studies to travel (in 1877 he visited Italy and Greece), while published in several newspapers and magazines his first poems, which were collected in 1881 in Poems. The following year he undertook a trip to United States, where he gave a series of lectures on his theory about the philosophy of aesthetics, which defended the idea of "art for art 'and which provided the foundation for what later was called dandismo.

Upon his return, Oscar Wilde did the same in British universities and cultural centers, where he was exceptionally well received. Also it was in France, which he visited in 1883 and in which befriended with Verlaine and other writers of the time. In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, who gave him two sons, who rejected the last name after the events of 1895. Between 1887 and 1889 produced a women's magazine, Woman's World, and in 1888 published a book of short stories, The Happy Prince, which led to welcome the publication in 1891 of several of his works, including The crime lord Arthur Saville. Wilde's success was based on the sharp wit and epigrammatic to splurge on their works, often dedicated to whip hypocrisy of his contemporaries. It was reissued in a book previously published novel in the form of booklets, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, the only novel by Wilde, for which earned him fierce criticism from conservative sectors Puritans and because of his misrepresentation of the subject of Faust.

Not decreased, however, his popularity as a playwright, who grew with works such as Salome (1891), written in French, or the importance of the name Ernesto (1895), works of live dialogues and loaded with irony. Its success, however, was truncated in 1895 when the Marquis de Queenberry launched a smear campaign in newspapers and magazines, accusing him of homosexual. Wilde, for his part, tried to defend himself against a defamatory Queenberry, without success, because the evidence presented by the latter gave evidence of facts that could be judged in the light of the Criminal Act Amendement On May 27, 1895 Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years imprisonment and hard labor. The many pressures and requests for clemency made from progressive sectors and from several major European literary circles were not heard and the writer was obliged to comply in full sentences. Sent to Wandsworth, and Reading, where he later wrote the acclaimed Ballad of Reading Jail, the ruling meant the loss of everything he had achieved during their years of glory. Regained their freedom, it changed its name and surname (adopted by Sebastian Melmoth) and emigrated to Paris, where he remained until his death. Last years of his life were marked by economic fragility, his fragile health, the problems derived from their fondness for drink and a last-minute approach to Catholicism. Only posthumously again represent their works and edited. In 1906, Richard Strauss made his music drama Salome, and over the years was translated into several languages almost all his literary production.

He died the 30 of November of 1900 in Paris.