oscar wilde. aesthete of aesthetes what’s in a name! the poet is wilde, but his poetry’s tame
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Aesthete of AesthetesWhat’s in a name!The poet is WILDE,But his poetry’s tame.
The Marquess of Queensberry's calling card with the offending inscription "For Oscar Wilde posing Somdomite"
• Charles Gill (prosecuting): What is "the love that dares not speak its name?"
• Wilde: "The love that dares not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect.
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Canterville Ghost
On AestheticismWalter Pater
Dandyism• Sir Gauvain• Amadis de Gaula• Il Cortegiano• L’ uomo universale• Homme de qualité• Dandy en fop
Lord Foppington
in
The Relapse
John Vanburgh
Beau Brummell
Prince RegentGeorge IV
Foppish
Sir Percey Blakeney, baronet
• We seek him here, we seek him there,Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell?That demmed, elusive Pimpernel.
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