Art and Morality. Sos Eltis gives the third lecture in the series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on Wilde's Wilde, Victorian and Modernist. Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art. Oscar Wilde's Women. Sophie Duncan introduces Oscar Wilde by setting him in an accurate historical context.
Victorian Gothic: An Introduction. Julian Thompson. The Importance of Being Wilde. Essays, criticisms and reviews. London : Privately printed [for Wright and Jones? The Soul of Man under Socialism. De Profundis. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, and other stories. A House of Pomegranates. While the book received only modest critical praise, it nevertheless established Wilde as an up-and-coming writer.
The next year, in , Wilde traveled from London to New York City to embark on an American lecture tour, for which he delivered a staggering lectures in just nine months.
While not lecturing, he managed to meet with some of the leading American scholars and literary figures of the day, including Henry Longfellow , Oliver Wendell Holmes and Walt Whitman. Wilde especially admired Whitman. Upon the conclusion of his American tour, Wilde returned home and immediately commenced another lecture circuit of England and Ireland that lasted until the middle of Through his lectures, as well as his early poetry, Wilde established himself as a leading proponent of the aesthetic movement, a theory of art and literature that emphasized the pursuit of beauty for its own sake, rather than to promote any political or social viewpoint.
They had two sons: Cyril, born in , and Vyvyan, born in A year after his wedding, Wilde was hired to run Lady's World , a once-popular English magazine that had recently fallen out of fashion.
During his two years editing Lady's World , Wilde revitalized the magazine by expanding its coverage to "deal not merely with what women wear, but with what they think and what they feel. The Lady's World ," wrote Wilde, "should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. Beginning in , while he was still serving as editor of Lady's World , Wilde entered a seven-year period of furious creativity, during which he produced nearly all of his great literary works.
In , he published Intentions , an essay collection arguing the tenets of aestheticism, and that same year, he published his first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. The novel is a cautionary tale about a beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, who wishes and receives his wish that his portrait ages while he remains youthful and lives a life of sin and pleasure. Though the novel is now revered as a great and classic work, at the time critics were outraged by the book's apparent lack of morality.
Wilde vehemently defended himself in a preface to the novel, considered one of the great testaments to aestheticism, in which he wrote, "an ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style" and "vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. Wilde's first play, Lady Windermere's Fan , opened in February to widespread popularity and critical acclaim, encouraging Wilde to adopt playwriting as his primary literary form.
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Wilde is influenced by John Ruskin and Walter Peter for the ideas about art and individualism. Wilde often included his beliefs in his works. This makes his artistic sense, plot, style different from the others. He is phenomenal.
His writings are often autobiographical. He has written essays on art to promote it. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel written by Oscar Wilde , which highlights embellishing art, using great vocabulary. He has written down his thoughts with beautiful wordplay. He is a perfectionist who is very concerned about the produced work because through his works he is promoting his thoughts.
Oscar Wilde is vivid when it comes to writing.
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