Oscar Wilde s The Picture Of Dorian Gray - 1644 Words

Looking back on Oscar Wilde s life, there are many realizations that he struggled finding something that suited him best with his type of work. A man of the 19th century, who is best known for his only novella The Picture of Dorian Gray and his play The Importance of Being Earnest as well as his infamous arrest, imprisonment and being a gay author leading to his downfall. Oscar Wilde who was known as a playwright, author, sometime poet, and also a not very motivated school student, still came to success. He was very talented, intelligent and aesthetically interested and looked at others works as influential. Using this influence he started to write his own works and became a successful and well known author. Born on October 16, 1854,†¦show more content†¦At that school he never showed any academic excellence until his last year. In October of 1871 he received an acceptance and scholarship to Trinity College, in which his years there, he won many prizes. He received offers fr om Magdalen College, Oxford, which was insisted by his tutor that he should attend. Many students that encountered Wilde, described him as a brilliant talker. Wilde then later won the Newdigate Prize for his long poem titled Ravenna which was written in 1878. In 1881, he started critiquing and reviewing art and also started writing poems around this time. Wilde also started traveling to big countries like America and Canada speaking in cities for ten months about the aesthetic movement, decorations of houses, along with artists, writers and Irish poets. During his traveling days he met government officials along with famous authors and poets, the most popular person he met at the time was Walt Whitman, Henry James and Oliver Wendall Holmes. Wilde concluded that America is a land of unmatched vitality and vulgarity... Later on he traveled to London in 1883 of January to write and spend some time there using the money he made from his lecture tour. During the 19th century, English an d French literature experienced a movement which stated that art had no moral or ethical purpose. The aesthetic movement was an artistic and cultural movement influenced by German philosophers. Many authors said that art is a whole