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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde. Aesthete of Aesthetes What’s in a name! The poet is WILDE, But his poetry’s tame. With Lord Afred Douglas (Bosie). The Marquess of Queensberry's calling card with the offending inscription "For Oscar Wilde posing Somdomite".

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Oscar Wilde

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  1. Oscar Wilde

  2. Aesthete of Aesthetes What’s in a name! The poet is WILDE, But his poetry’s tame.

  3. With Lord Afred Douglas (Bosie)

  4. The Marquess of Queensberry's calling card with the offending inscription "For Oscar Wilde posing Somdomite"

  5. Charles Gill (prosecuting): What is "the love that dares not speak its name?" • Wilde: "The love that dares not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect.

  6. The Picture of Dorian Gray

  7. The Canterville Ghost

  8. On AestheticismWalter Pater

  9. Dandyism • Sir Gauvain • Amadis de Gaula • Il Cortegiano • L’ uomo universale • Homme de qualité • Dandy en fop

  10. Lord Foppington in The Relapse John Vanburgh

  11. Beau Brummell Prince Regent George IV

  12. Foppish

  13. Sir Percey Blakeney, baronet

  14. We seek him here, we seek him there,Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell?That demmed, elusive Pimpernel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-qQ-rC5Ol4&feature=PlayList&p=85A4B7AC03ABAA55&index=9

  15. Blenheim Palace

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