Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer born in 1854 who studied at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford University. He wrote poetry, essays, and plays that explored aestheticism and challenged Victorian conventions. Wilde was tried and convicted of gross indecency in 1895 and sentenced to two years of hard labor. He died in 1900 after his release from prison.

1. OSCAR WILDE A Controversial Writer

2. Biography Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland in 1854 Wilde studied classics at Trinity College Dublin from 1871 to 1874. He was awarded a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1874 to 1878. He wrote poetry and essays and graduated with a excellent results. He began wearing long hair and extravagant clothes. He married Constance Lloyd in London in 1884 and they had two sons.

3. He starts having sex with youg men. He meets his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895 he went on trial and was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years hard labour. He died of cerebral meningitis in 1900.

4. Philosophy Wilde was deeply impressed by the English writers John Ruskin and Walter Pater, who argued for the central importance of art in life. He belonged to the aesthetics movement (an anti-Victorian reaction): Life had to be lived intensely, following an ideal of beauty.

5. Works Poetry Ravenna (1878) Poems (1881) The Sphinx (1894) The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) Prose The Canterville Ghost (1887) The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888, fairy tales) [4] The Decay Of Lying (First published in 1889, republished in Intentions 1891) Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891) (1891, critical dialogues and essays, comprising , The Decay of Lying , and ) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891, Wilde's only novel) A House of Pomegranates (1891, fairy tales) The Soul of Man under Socialism (First published in the Pall Mall Gazette , 1891, first book publication 1904) Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (First published in the Oxford student magazine The Chameleon , December, 1894) De Profundis (1905) (published in incomplete form 1905 and completed form in 1908) The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1960) Re-released in 2000, with letters uncovered since 1960, and new, detailed, footnotes by Merlin Holland. Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal (Paris, 1893) has been attributed to Wilde, but was more likely a combined effort by a several of Wilde's friends, which he may have edited. Plays Salomé (1893) Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) A Woman of No Importance (1893) An Ideal Husband (1895) The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

6. Prose The Canterville Ghost (1887) The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (1891) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891, Wilde's only novel) De Profundis (1905) The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1960) Re-released in 2000, with letters uncovered since 1960.