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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde. Michelle Hansson. 16 October 1854 in Dublin Irish writer, poet, journalist and prominent  aesthete Sir William Wilde- ear and eye surgeon Lady Jane Francesca -poet and a journalist. Trinity college in Dublin and at Oxford university. Brilliant student

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Oscar Wilde

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  1. Oscar Wilde Michelle Hansson

  2. 16 October 1854 in Dublin • Irish writer, poet, journalist and prominent  aesthete • Sir William Wilde- ear and eye surgeon • Lady Jane Francesca -poet and a journalist

  3. Trinity college in Dublin and at Oxford university. • Brilliant student • toured America lecturing on aestheticism.

  4. In 1884 Wilde married Constance Lloyd • Two sons :Cyril and Vyvyan • Woman's World magazine • In 1895 two years imprisonment for violating the moral laws

  5. Bankruptcy • as Sebastian Melmoth lived in Italie, France • Died of cerebral meningitis penniless, in a cheap Paris hotel at the age of 46 • Père Lachaise cemetery .

  6. Fairy- Tales • Criticism • Contrasts between bad and good • Unfair society • Unhappy endings • Suffering is ennobling • Vivid and lyrical

  7. The Happy Prince and Other Tales • The Happy Prince • The Nightingale and the Rose • The Selfish Giant • The Devoted Friend • The Remarkable Rocket

  8. A House of Pomegranates • The Young King • The Birthday of the Infanta • The Fisherman and his Soul • The Star-Child

  9. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

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