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February 20, 1995 Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Christopher Hitchens: www.amazon.com Peter Hitchens: www.amazon.com Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde www.amazon.com (16 October 1854 — 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete. His parents were successful Dublin intellectuals and from an early age he was tutored at home, where he showed his intelligence, becoming fluent in French and German. He attended boarding school for six years, then matriculated to university at seventeen years of age. Reading Greats, Wilde proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Trinity College, Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. His intellectual horizons were broad and he became deeply interested in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, lead by two of his tutors Walter Pater and John Ruskin, at the same time profoundly exploring Roman Catholicism. After university, Wilde moved to London and into fashionable cultural and social circles, becoming a spokesman for aestheticism. He tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems and toured America lecturing extensively on the new “English Renaissance”. He then returned to London, where he worked prolifically as a journalist for four years. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde was one of the most well-known personalities of his day. He next produced a series of dialogues and essays that developed his ideas …
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