The Unmasking of Oscar WildeIgnatius Press, 3. 9. 2009 - 400 strán (strany) Vilified by fellow Victorians for his sexuality and his dandyism, Oscar Wilde, the great poet, satirist and playwright, is hailed today, in some circles, as a progressive sexual liberator. But this image is not how Wilde saw himself. Joseph Pearce's biography strips away pretensions to show the real man, his aspirations and desires. It uncovers how he was broken by his prison sentence; it probes the deeper thinking behind masterpieces such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis; and it traces his fascination with Catholicism through to his eleventh-hour conversion. Pearce removes the masks and reveals the Wilde beneath the surface. He has written a profound, wide-ranging study with many original insights on a great literary figure. |
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... Baudelaire claimed to have found in Melmoth an alter ego , and Baudelaire's own considerable influence on the young Oscar Wilde ensured that Maturin's hero would hold Wilde even more in his thrall than he might otherwise have done ...
... ' The Fleshly School of Poetry ' in 1871. By this time , the sixteen - year - old Wilde was a thoroughgoing convert to the ' Fleshly School ' , discovering Swinburne and, through him, Baudelaire and Whitman. The seed of.
Joseph Pearce. Swinburne and, through him, Baudelaire and Whitman. The seed of Wilde's future flowering was being sown. Wilde's extracurricular reading had no noticeable effect on his academic achievement at Portora. He emerged ...
... Baudelaire, made Ireland seem too parochial, too claustrophobic and inhibiting. What had the earthy demands of the Irish peasants in common with the aesthetic demands of the universal critic? The Pre-Raphaelites were singularly and ...
... Baudelaire. The young poet, liberated from Dublin's dreary limitations into the fresher air of a freer world, was finding his voice. Returning to Ireland briefly before re-embarking once more for his new life in England, Wilde received ...
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Malice Through the Looking Glass | |
Critic or Artist | |
Friends and Relations | |
Saints and Sinners | |
Fatal Attraction | |
Courting Conviction | |
Descent | |
Abyss | |
Courting Controversy | |
Poetry and Pose | |
Courting Constance | |
The French Connection | |
Truth and Masks | |
Purity and Passion | |
Poison and Passion | |
Unhappy Hypocrite | |
Purgatory | |
Out of the Depths | |
Wilderness | |
Hounded by Heaven | |
Revelations | |
Endnotes | |