Oscar Wilde and aphorism
"The only way to get rid of temptation
is to yield to it"
"Nothing is so ignoble that Art
cannot sanctify it"
"If children grow up among lovely things,
they will grow up to love beauty"
"Pleasure is the only thing one should
live for"
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
"Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life."
"All Art is useless. (like a flower is useless.)"
1854-1878
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Dubin, 1854
School and education
Portora Royal, Enniskillen
He guaduated in 1878
1878-1884
1881- Poems
1882- Unites States and Canada
He headed to Paris and he met
Zola
Degas
Hugo
1884-1889
1884- marriage with Constance Lloyd
he started to experiment different genres
tales for children
"The Happy Prince and other Tales" (1888)
short stories and essays
"The Decay Of Lying" (1889)
EARLY 1900s
1890 - "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
1891 - "Lady Windermere's Fan"
1892 - "A Woman of No Importance"
1894 - "An Ideal Husband"
1895 - "The importance of Being Earnest" and "Salome"
Since 1891
BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL INSTABILITY
Imprisonment with hard labour in Reading Gaol
1905 - "De Profundis" and "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Affair whit the Lord Alfred Douglas