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Wilde was imprisoned for homosexual
acts in 1895 and went bankrupt before he left the prison. Other
than De Profundis (1905, posthumous), written partly in jail, his
only other contribution to literary history would be The Ballad
of Reading Gaol (1898), a grim and sombre reflection on the execution
of an inmate and (again) the deep-seated evil in man. Wilde died
in 1900 but his name is still synonymous with the bohemian lifestyle,
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Oscar Wilde!
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on 16 October 1854
in Dublin. He would later assert that a name which is destined
to be in everyone's mouth must not be too long. All the world
would come to know him simply as Oscar Wilde. His father, William
Robert Wilde, an eminent eye doctor, was appointed Surgeon Occulist
to the Queen and was knighted. His mother, Jane Speranza Francesca
Wilde, wrote patriotic Irish verse under the pseudonym, Speranza.
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