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See also:WILDE, OSCAR O'FLAHERTIE See also:WILLS (1856-1900), See also:English author, son of See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Wilde, a famous Irish surgeon, was See also:born in See also:Dublin on the 15th of See also:October 1856; his See also:mother, Jane Francisca Elgee, was well known in Dublin as a graceful writer of See also:verse and See also:prose, under the See also:pen-name of " Speranza." Having distinguished himself in See also:classics at Trinity See also:College, Dublin, Oscar Wilde went to Magdalen College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, in 1874, and won the See also:Newdigate See also:prize in 1878 with his poem " See also:Ravenna," besides taking a first-class in classical Moderations and in Literae Humaniores. But his career at Oxford, brilliant intellectually as he showed himself to be, was chiefly signalized by the See also:part he played in what came to be known as the aesthetic See also:movement. He adopted what to undergraduates appeared the effeminate pose of casting scorn on manly See also:sports, wearing his See also:hair See also:long, decorating his rooms with See also:peacock's feathers, lilies, sunflowers, See also:blue See also:china and other objets d'See also:art, which he declared his See also:desire to " live up to," affecting a lackadaisical manner, and professing intense emotions on the subject of " art for art's See also:sake "—then a new-fangled See also:doctrine which J. M. See also:Whistler was bringing into prominence. Wilde made himself the apostle of this new cult. At Oxford his behaviour procured him a See also:ducking in the Cherwell, and a wrecking of his rooms, but the cult spread among certain sections of society to such an extent that languishing attitudes, " too-too " costumes and " aestheticism " generally became a recognized pose. Its affectations were burlesqued in See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert and See also:Sullivan's See also:travesty See also:Patience (1881), which practically killed by ridicule the absurdities to which it had grown. At the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time it cannot be denied that the " aesthetic " movement, in the aspect fundamentally represented by the school of William See also:Morris and See also:Rossetti, had a permanent See also:influence on English decorative art. As the leading " aesthete," Oscar Wilde became one of the most prominent personalities of the See also:day; apart from the ridicule he encountered, his affected paradoxes and his witty sayings were quoted on all sides, and in 1882 he went on a lecturing tour in the See also:United States. In 1884 he married See also:Constance See also:Lloyd. He had already published in 1881 a selection of his poems, which, however, only attracted admiration in a limited circle. In 1888 appeared The Happy See also:Prince and Other Tales, illustrated by See also:Walter See also:Crane and Jacomb See also:Hood. This charming See also:volume of See also:fairy tales was followed up later by a second collection, The See also:House of Pomegranates (1892), acknowledged by the author to be " intended neither for the See also:British See also:child nor the British public." In much of his writings, and in his See also:general attitude, there was to most See also:people an undertone of rather nasty See also:suggestion which created See also:prejudice against him, and his novel, The Picture of Dorian See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray (1891), with all its sparkle and cleverness, impressed them more from this point of view than from its purely See also:literary brilliance. Wilde contributed some characteristic articles to the reviews, all coloured by his See also:peculiar attitude towards art and See also:life, and in 1891 re-published three of them as a See also:book called Intentions. His first real success with the larger public was as a dramatist with See also:Lady See also:Windermere's See also:Fan at the St See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James's See also:Theatre in 1892, followed by A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal See also:Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being See also:Earnest (1895). The
dramatic and literary ability shown in these plays, all of which were published later in book See also:form, was as undoubted as their diction and ideas were characteristically paradoxical. In 1893 the licenser of plays refused a See also:licence to Wilde's See also:Salome, but it was produced in See also:French in See also:Paris by Sarah See also:Bernhardt in 1894. His success as a dramatist had by this time gone some way to disabuse hostile critics of the suspicions as regards his See also:personal See also:character which had been excited by the apparent looseness of morals which since his Oxford days it had always pleased him to affect; but to the consternation of his See also:friends, who had ceased to See also:credit the existence of any real moral obliquity, in 1895 came fatal revelations as the result of his bringing a See also:libel See also:action against the See also:marquis of See also:Queensberry; and at the Old See also:Bailey, in May, Wilde was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour for offences under the Criminal See also:Law See also:Amendment See also:Act. It was a See also:melancholy end to what might have been a singularly brilliant career. Even after leaving See also:prison he was necessarily an outcast from decent circles, and he lived mainly on the See also:Continent, under the name of " See also:Sebastian Melmoth." He died in Paris on the 30th of See also:November 1900. In 1898 he published his powerful Ballad of See also:Reading See also:Gaol. His Collected Poems, containing some beautiful verse, had been issued in 1892. While in prison he wrote an See also:apology for his life which was placed in the hands of his executor and published in 1905. The See also:manuscripts of A Florentine Tragedy and an See also:essay on See also:Shakespeare's sonnets were stolen from his house in 111895. In 1904 a five-act tragedy, The Duchess of See also:Padua, written by Wilde about 1883 for See also:Mary See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
Anderson, but not acted by her, was published in a See also:German See also:translation (See also:Die Herzogin von Padua, translated by Max Meycrfeld) in See also:Berlin. It is still impossible to take a purely See also:objective view of Oscar Wilde's See also:work,. The Old Bailey revelations removed all doubt as to the essential unhealthiness of his personal influence; but his literary See also:genius was none the less remarkable, and his plays were perhaps the most See also:original contributions to English dramatic See also:writing during the See also:period. (H.
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