The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Wordsworth Classics)

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By 25 November 1900, Wilde had developed meningitis, then called "cerebral meningitis". Robbie Ross arrived on 29 November, sent for a priest, and Wilde was conditionally baptised into the Catholic Church by Fr Cuthbert Dunne, a Passionist priest from Dublin, [226] [227] Wilde having been baptised in the Church of Ireland and having moreover a recollection of Catholic baptism as a child, a fact later attested to by the minister of the sacrament, Fr Lawrence Fox. [228] Fr Dunne recorded the baptism: With the last of his inheritance from the sale of his father's houses, he set himself up as a bachelor in London. [54] The 1881 British Census listed Wilde as a boarder at 1 (now 44) Tite Street, Chelsea, where Frank Miles, a society painter, was the head of the household. [55] [56] Wilde won the 1878 Newdigate Prize for his poem " Ravenna", which reflected on his visit there in the previous year, and he duly read it at Encaenia. [45] In November 1878, he graduated with a double first in his B.A. of Classical Moderations and Literae Humaniores (Greats). Wilde wrote to a friend, "The dons are ' astonied' beyond words– the Bad Boy doing so well in the end!" [46] [47] Apprenticeship of an aesthete: 1880s Debut in society Photograph by Elliott & Fry of Baker Street, London, 1881 1881 caricature in Punch, the caption reads: "O.W.", "Oh, I eel just as happy as a bright sunflower, Lays of Christy Minstrelsy, "Æsthete of Æsthetes!/What's in a name!/The Poet is Wilde/But his poetry's tame." Spoo, Robert (2018). Modernism and the Law. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4742-7580-4. Archived from the original on 18 August 2020 . Retrieved 28 November 2019.

Unsure of his next step, Wilde wrote to various acquaintances enquiring about Classics positions at Oxford or Cambridge. [51] The Rise of Historical Criticism was his submission for the Chancellor's Essay prize of 1879, which, though no longer a student, he was still eligible to enter. Its subject, "Historical Criticism among the Ancients" seemed ready-made for Wilde– with both his skill in composition and ancient learning– but he struggled to find his voice with the long, flat, scholarly style. [52] Unusually, no prize was awarded that year. [52] [b] Wilde left Portora with a royal scholarship to read classics at Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), from 1871 to 1874, [26] sharing rooms with his older brother Willie Wilde. Trinity, one of the leading classical schools, placed him with scholars such as R. Y. Tyrell, Arthur Palmer, Edward Dowden and his tutor, Professor J. P. Mahaffy, who inspired his interest in Greek literature. As a student Wilde worked with Mahaffy on the latter's book Social Life in Greece. [27] Wilde, despite later reservations, called Mahaffy "my first and best teacher" and "the scholar who showed me how to love Greek things". [23] For his part, Mahaffy boasted of having created Wilde; later, he said Wilde was "the only blot on my tutorship". [28]Vallet, Odon (1995). L'affaire Oscar Wilde ou Du danger de laisser la justice mettre le nez dans nos draps. Paris: Editions Albin Michel. ISBN 978-2-226-07952-7. The book had further printings in 1882. It was bound in a rich, enamel parchment cover (embossed with gilt blossom) and printed on hand-made Dutch paper; over the next few years, Wilde presented many copies to the dignitaries and writers who received him during his lecture tours. [69] North America: 1882 Wilde lectured on the "English Renaissance in Art" during his US and Canada tour in 1882. Belford, Barbara (2000). Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-679-45734-3.

Pen, Pencil and Poison" First published in the Fortnightly Review (1889), republished in Intentions (1891). Peters, William Theodore (16 December 1894). "Oscar Wilde at Home". The Sunday Inter Ocean. Chicago. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023 . Retrieved 26 October 2023. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) Papers of Robert Ross and Vyvyan Holland relating to the Literary Estate of Oscar Wilde at the Bodleian Library, Oxford Raby, Peter, ed. (1997). The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde. London: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47987-5. Tagliabue, John (16 December 2011). "Walling Off Oscar Wilde's Tomb From Admirers' Kisses". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 1620500886 . Retrieved 1 February 2023.

If Wilde's period at the helm of the magazine was a mixed success from an organizational point of view, it played a pivotal role in his development as a writer and facilitated his ascent to fame. Whilst Wilde the journalist supplied articles under the guidance of his editors, Wilde the editor was forced to learn to manipulate the literary marketplace on his own terms. [100] Main article: Biographies of Oscar Wilde A Conversation with Oscar Wilde– a civic monument to Wilde by Maggi Hambling, on Adelaide Street, near Trafalgar Square, London. It contains the inscription, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars". [245] Wilde was declared bankrupt to pay legal costs after his conviction for " gross indecency", and his possessions - including manuscripts, letters, books and presentation volumes of all the major literary figures of his day - were sold by auction. This has made bibliographical (and biographical) studies of unpublished work more difficult since they are widely dispersed, some in private ownership. The largest collection of Wilde's letters, manuscripts, and other material relating to his literary circle are housed at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. [1] [2] A number of Wilde's letters and manuscripts can also be found at The British Library, as well as public and private collections throughout Britain, the United States and France.