Oscar Wilde
He was born “Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde” (he had three middle names!). That’s a mouthful, huh?
Known for being eccentric and focusing on drama, his dying words were “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.”
Wilde had a photographic memory,and his fellow students at Magdalen College in Oxford praised him for being able to recite from memory long passages of text.
Wilde had a wild (get it?) fashion sense. He loved to wear all different types of hats and wore green carnations in the lapel of his coat.
From the Power Poetry Archive
The original Oscar Wilde profile from the classic Power Poetry site.
He was born “Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde” (he had three middle names!). That’s a mouthful, huh?
Known for being eccentric and focusing on drama, his dying words were “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.”
Wilde had a photographic memory,and his fellow students at Magdalen College in Oxford praised him for being able to recite from memory long passages of text.
Wilde had a wild (get it?) fashion sense. He loved to wear all different types of hats and wore green carnations in the lapel of his coat.
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Oscar Wilde writes like a philosopher who shouts in metaphor between shadow and light.
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