Oscar Wilde and Myself
Author | : Alfred Bruce Douglas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Authors, Irish |
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Author | : Alfred Bruce Douglas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Authors, Irish |
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Author | : Alfred Douglas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781258036287 |
Author | : Alfred Bruce Douglas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Authors, Irish |
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Author | : Alfred Bruce Douglas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : Poets, English |
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Author | : Robert Harborough Sherard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1905 |
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Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2010-01-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0252034724 |
Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism, and he tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. This exceptional volume cites all ninety-one of Wilde's interviews and contains transcripts of forty-eight of them, and it also includes his lecture on his travels in America.
Author | : Lord Alfred Douglas |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2017-04-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781545568750 |
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 - 20 March 1945), nicknamed Bosie, was a British author, poet, translator, and political commentator, better known as the friend and lover of Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poet. Politically he would describe himself as "a strong Conservative of the 'Diehard' variety.Douglas was born at Ham Hill House in Powick, Worcestershire, the third son of John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry and his first wife Sibyl Montgomery. He was his mother's favourite child; she called him Bosie (a derivative of "boysie," as in boy), a nickname which stuck for the rest of his life.[2] His mother successfully sued for divorce in 1887 on the grounds of his father's adultery. The Marquess married Ethel Weeden in 1893 but the marriage was annulled the following year. Douglas was educated at Wixenford School, Winchester College (1884-88) and Magdalen College, Oxford (1889-93), which he left without obtaining a degree. At Oxford, he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp (1892-3), an activity that intensified the constant conflict between him and his father. Their relationship had always been a strained one and during the Queensberry-Wilde feud, Douglas sided with Wilde, even encouraging Wilde to prosecute the Marquess for libel. In 1893, Douglas had a brief affair with George Ives.
Author | : Jonathan Fryer |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1998-04-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780312303877 |
In the Autumn of 1891, Oscar Wilde set about conquering literary Paris. Gide was dazzled by the Irishman's energy and verve, but was driven to the edge of a nervous breakdown by Wilde's merciless paradoxes and questioning of religious faith. The two writers met repeatedly over the next ten years in France, Italy, and North Africa, both before and after Wilde's imprisonment. But by the time Wilde died in Paris in 1900, the tables had been turned. He was impoverished and disgraced, while Gide was well launched on a literary career that would make him the most famous French writer of his generation and win him the Nobel Prize. Andre and Oscar charts the stormy emotions of the Gide-Wilde friendship as well as the influence they had on each other. But it also looks at the two men's live through the eyes of their mothers, their wives, and their lovers, documented largely through diaries and letters from the period and illustrated with contemporary photographs. The book also provides an often surprising insight into what W. H. Auden would much later call the "Homintern" - an international network of gay men and their young companions - as well as the moral hypocrisy of the 1890s.
Author | : Robert Harborough Sherard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Authors, Irish |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Harborough Sherard |
Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230347349 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... OSCAR WILDE WHEN AT OXFORD, 1878. (J. Guggenheim, Photo?, Oxford.) To face p. 48. Hotel Voltaire, and entertained him royally, and after dinner prayed of him to recite certain of his verses. Rollinat gave us his terrible Ballad of Troppmann, a gruesome and terrifying poem, to which the nervous excitement of its author, as he repeated it with wild gestures, lent additional horror. It was a very revel of the morbid. Poe would have crossed the ocean to be present. Oscar Wilde expressed a supreme satisfaction. On me, that evening produced a feeling of deep melancholy. I passed a sleepless night, and I wondered whether my friend had not felt, in Rollinat's presence and at the aspect of his state, a prompting to say a word, to hold out a hand, to offer help. From a man of his presence, with the authority of his reputation and position, an attempt at interference would not have been resented, and might have helped. His silence, nay, his approval, before a spectacle of self-destruction which to my Calvinistic conscience seemed the sin which can never be pardoned, were in my mind when, next day, as we were crossing the Pont des Arts, I asked him: "If you saw a man throw himself into the river here, would you go after him?" "I should consider it an act of gross impertinence to do so," he said. "His suicide would be a perfectly thought-out act, the definite result of a scientific process, with which I should have no right whatever to interfere." V There was no selfishness in this assumed indifference. Oscar Wilde was at once a supreme egotist and the least selfish of men, --that is to say, that he combined complete individualism with a large and generous altruism. He had not the masked selfishness of self-sacrifice where his strong nature rebelled...