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Oscar Wilde Who Is Oscar Wilde?
Oscar Wilde Who Is Oscar Wilde?
Imprisonment
(In 1895, at the peak of his career, the poet shocked the
British middle class at the time.)
Oscar Wilde was a friend of Lord Alfred Douglas, an
English writer and poet. His father suspected the two of
them of having an affair. He therefore decided to send him
a letter:
"For Oscar Wilde posing Somdomite
John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry"
Wilde, encouraged by the complainant’s son, denounced
him for slander and wielded the amorality of art as a
defense.
(Finally, the ninth Marquess of Queensberry was released
and Wilde faced a second trial in May 1895, in which he
was charged with "sodomy and serious indecency", and
sentenced to two years' hard labour.)
(Left prison in May 1897.)
Death
Wilde and Douglas lived together for a few months at
the end of 1897, near Naples, until the threat from
their respective families to cut off their funds
eventually separated them. Wilde spent the rest of his
life in Paris, where he lived under the false name of
Sebastian Melmoth. There, and at the hand of an Irish
priest from the church of Saint Joseph, he would have
converted to Catholicism, a faith in which he
supposedly died.
sentence
(To conclude, I leave the following sentence)
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts
are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,
their passions a quotation.”