Intentions (1891) Wilde revised his dialogues on aesthetic subjects for publication in this volume, which comprises:

A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated" [3] First published, anonymously, in the 1894 November 17 issue of Saturday Review. Main articles: The Soul of Man under Socialism, The Decay of Lying, and The Critic as Artist Sheet music cover, 1880s London's Wilde tribute". BBC News. 30 November 1998. Archived from the original on 21 May 2018 . Retrieved 24 November 2020. About five months after Wilde arrived at Reading Gaol, Charles Thomas Wooldridge, a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards, was brought to Reading to await his trial for murdering his wife on 29 March 1896; on 17 June Wooldridge was sentenced to death and returned to Reading for his execution, which took place on Tuesday, 7 July 1896 – the first hanging at Reading in 18 years. From Wooldridge's hanging, Wilde later wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Peters, William Theodore (16 December 1894). "Oscar Wilde at Home". The Sunday Inter Ocean. Chicago. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023 . Retrieved 26 October 2023. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link)Wilde was not, at first, even allowed paper and pen, but Haldane eventually succeeded in allowing access to books and writing materials. [202] Wilde requested, among others, the Bible in French; Italian and German grammars; some Ancient Greek texts; Dante's Divine Comedy; Joris-Karl Huysmans's new French novel about Christian redemption, En route; and essays by St Augustine, Cardinal Newman and Walter Pater. [203] Cooper, John. "The Lecture Tour of North America 1882". Oscar Wilde in America. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017 . Retrieved 15 October 2017. Though the book sold out its first print run of 750 copies, it was not generally well received by the critics: Punch, for example, said that "The poet is Wilde, but his poetry's tame". [63] [64] [65] By a tight vote, the Oxford Union condemned the book for alleged plagiarism. The librarian, who had requested the book for the library, returned the presentation copy to Wilde with a note of apology. [66] [67] Biographer Richard Ellmann argues that Wilde's poem " Hélas!" was a sincere, though flamboyant, attempt to explain the dichotomies the poet saw in himself; one line reads: "To drift with every passion till my soul / Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play". [68] Shurvell, Joanne (29 November 2017). "Afternoon Tea At Oscar Wilde's Favorite Bar". Forbes . Retrieved 3 July 2022. The Second Collected Edition (Methuen & Co., 12 volumes) appeared in installments between 1909–11 and contained several other unpublished works.

Ross, Alex (1 August 2011). "Deceptive Picture: How Oscar Wilde painted over "Dorian Gray" ". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014 . Retrieved 3 August 2011. Adut, Ari (2005). "A Theory of Scandal: Victorians, Homosexuality, and the Fall of Oscar Wilde". American Journal of Sociology. 111 (1): 213–248. doi: 10.1086/428816. ISSN 0002-9602. PMID 16240549. S2CID 40383920. Louis, Thomas. L'esprit d'Oscar Wilde. Collection Anglia (4thed.). Paris: G. Crès & Cie. OCLC 3243250.Jane Wilde was a niece (by marriage) of the novelist, playwright and clergyman Charles Maturin (1780–1824), who may have influenced her own literary career. She believed, mistakenly, that she was of Italian ancestry, [6] and under the pseudonym "Speranza" (the Italian word for 'hope'), she wrote poetry for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848; she was a lifelong Irish nationalist. [7] Jane Wilde read the Young Irelanders' poetry to Oscar and Willie, inculcating a love of these poets in her sons. [8] Her interest in the neo-classical revival showed in the paintings and busts of ancient Greece and Rome in her home. [8] Breen, Richard (2000). Oxford, Oddfellows & Funny Tales. London: Penny Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-901374-00-1. Oscar Wilde, a critical study by Arthur Ransome was published in 1912. The book only briefly mentioned Wilde's life, but subsequently Ransome (and The Times Book Club) were sued for libel by Lord Alfred Douglas. At the High Court in London in April 1913, Douglas lost the libel action after a reading of De Profundis refuted his claims. [251] [252]

Holland, Merlin; Rupert Hart-Davis (2000) The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. New York City: Henry Holt and Company (US edition). ISBN 0805059156. London: Fourth Estate (UK edition). ISBN 978-1-85702-781-5. Bedell, Geraldine (26 October 2003). "It was all Greek to Oscar". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013 . Retrieved 22 February 2010. Holland, Merlin (2004). The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-715805-8. Archived from the original on 20 August 2020 . Retrieved 24 August 2018.Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was a flamboyant and vivacious Irish playwright o Kilfeather, Siobhán Marie (2005). Dublin, a Cultural History. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518202-6. Marjoribanks, Edward (1932). Carson the Advocate. London: Macmillan. p.213. OCLC 679460. Carson had again and again used the word "pose" with ironic emphasis.

Wilde left Portora with a royal scholarship to read classics at Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), from 1871 to 1874, [26] sharing rooms with his older brother Willie Wilde. Trinity, one of the leading classical schools, placed him with scholars such as R. Y. Tyrell, Arthur Palmer, Edward Dowden and his tutor, Professor J. P. Mahaffy, who inspired his interest in Greek literature. As a student Wilde worked with Mahaffy on the latter's book Social Life in Greece. [27] Wilde, despite later reservations, called Mahaffy "my first and best teacher" and "the scholar who showed me how to love Greek things". [23] For his part, Mahaffy boasted of having created Wilde; later, he said Wilde was "the only blot on my tutorship". [28] The Last Englishman by Roland Chambers pp 61–69 (2009, Faber and Faber, London) ISBN 978-0-571-22261-2. Epstein produced the design with architect Charles Holden, for whom Epstein produced several controversial commissions in London.Spoo, Robert (2018). Modernism and the Law. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4742-7580-4. Archived from the original on 18 August 2020 . Retrieved 28 November 2019.