>writes the perfect novel
>writes the perfect poem
>writes the perfect play
How did he do it?
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>writes the perfect novel. >writes the perfect poem. >writes the perfect play
What play and poem?
The Importance of Being Earnest and The Sphinx.
checked and wilde-pilled
>writes the perfect essay
kino
was this guy a gay?
"The love that dare 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. It dictates and pervades great works of art, like those of Shakespeare and Michelangelo, and those two letters of mine, such as they are. It is in this century misunderstood, so much misunderstood that it may be described as "the love that dare not speak its name", and on that account of it I am placed where I am now. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an older and a younger man, when the older man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him. That it should be so, the world does not understand. The world mocks at it, and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it.
yeah, I'm thinking he gay
The quote, "The love the dare not speak its name" is often misattributed to Wilde, it was originally coined by his lover and eventual nemesis Lord Alfred Douglas.
It's a kind of hilarious Wilde wrote De Profundis to rage about how much Alfred fricked him over and how much of a talentless hack he was and now over a hundred years later one of the most famous lines attributed to Wilde was actually Alfred's.
The Portrait of Dorian Grey is absolutely worth a read though.
>The quote, "The love the dare not speak its name" is often misattributed to Wilde
Same with "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery", which was actually written by Charles Caleb Colton, some forgotten guy
Wilde did identify himself quite strongly with his homosexual desires and the homosexual cause, however. That was when homosexuality was quite based, and associated above all with antiquity, and not with American, consumerist, rainbow-toting, hiddledy piddledy trash
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Yes but homosexuality, or having sex with men, or being an aesthete, or a libertine, is something different in quality to creating an identity based on sexuality and demanding recognition of yourself primarily and essentially as that sexual identity within society as modern "gay" identity does.
making generalizations like that is something you can only apply to art, the point being that it doesn't apply to real life. You cant just quote the moronic oscar wilde and be like "yeah this is so relatable", you have to take the texts of shakespeare and michelangelo and think about the deeper implications, which of course are gay but not because "its le epic and redpilled xddddd"
He was married with two kids, he just had sex with men on the side as other men kept mistresses, not gay-identity nonsense.
that's perfectly compatible with being gay
Foucault was right
Not gay identity. He was a libertine aesthete and a Victorian family man.
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>writes the perfect fairy tale
He writes.
>writes the perfect novel
Eh, the style is somewhat convoluted and cumbersome. Which is surprising coming from the man of elegance and wit.
He certainly did not have any notable literary elegance. Tends to be a trend of writers who spend too much time on their aesthetic philosophy, it feels like compensation. Not that it's not an important thing to write about.
He was a nonce
I once got bullied on IQfy for stating that I liked Jekyll and Hyde more than Dorian Gray
Stevenson is YA-tier, great big brain 19th century YA, but still YA. To hold him as favourite indicates arrested literary development.
Interesting because I had read analysis of Wilde's "Symphony in Yellow" as an example of a poem where the form and logic are not joined together. It's no matter though, even the best poets wrote embarrassing poems plenty of times since poetry is by far the hardest to succeed at.