Oscar Wilde
#93
Most Influential Person Across History
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete
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Philosophy
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Aesthetics
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Logic
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Why Is Oscar Wilde Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
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What Are Oscar Wilde's Academic Contributions?
Oscar Wilde has made the following academic contributions:
- The Young King
- The Remarkable Rocket
- The Happy Prince and Other Tales
- The Birthday of the Infanta
- Salome
- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
- Intentions
- Impressions of America
- De Profundis
- The Star-Child
- The Sphinx Without a Secret
- The Soul of Man under Socialism
- The Picture of Dorian gray
- The Nightingale and the Rose
- The Model Millionaire
- The Devoted Friend
- The Decay of Lying
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal
- Ravenna
- Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
- Only Dull People are Brilliant at Breakfast
- Lady Windermere's Fan
- A Woman of No Importance
- A House of Pomegranates