101. Oscar Wilde's Socialism : A Look At The Socialist And Anarchist Writings Of Osca Essay on Wilde s awareness of poverty and its remedy, and his vision of what human society could be. Irish anarchist perspective. http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws98/ws53_wilde.html

You've read the poems, seen the plays or been to the film Oscar Wilde's socialism Yet all is well; he has but passed To Life's appointed bourne: And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long broken urn For his mourners be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn. Paris has had its fair share of famous people die in it. Most of them have ended up in the Pere La Chaise cemetery and Oscar Wilde is one of them. Of all the people buried there, that was the one grave I had to see when I entered that cemetery on a brisk March morning. I admire him because he was the master of that Irish pastime of extracting the Michael. He was at first lauded by a society which would later reject him; as much for what he believed as for what he did. He believed his mourners would be outcasts because he never felt part of a society that holds homophobia as an attribute rather than what it really is, a disease. "I think I am rather more than a Socialist. I am something of an Anarchist, I believe..." Oscar Wilde was also inspired by politics. He was not blind to the obvious early failings of modern day society. The poverty he wrote about over a century ago, in ' The soul of man under Socialism ', exists on the streets of Dublin today. Throughout this winter I've walked to work past bodies huddled under blankets in St. Stephen's Green, wheezing with bronchitis in the frosty air.

102. Famous Irish Lives - Oscar Wilde Biography of the 19th-century Dublin-born author. http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/history/people/whoswho/o_wilde.shtm

Web www.irelandseye.com irelandseye.com recommends Firefox for browsing. Click this link for a non-affiliated click-thru to get Firefox // Where you place this code is where the random proverb will be displayed. document.write(ideas[rand(ideas.length)]) OSCAR WILDE AUTHOR Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, on 16 October 1854. His father was an eminent eye and ear specialist; his mother wrote under the pen-name 'Speranza'. They soon moved to 1 Merrion Square, where Oscar was allowed to frequent his mother's salon. Wilde defeated Edward Carson for the foundation scholarship in classics at Trinity College, Dublin, and in 1874 won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was influenced by John Ruskin, Walter Pater and Cardinal Newman. He became a disciple of aestheticism, pursuing beauty for beauty's sake; his poem Ravenna (1878) won the Newdigate Prize. Wilde's wit and eccentric dress attracted attention, and in 1882 he undertook a lecture tour in America, advising a customs officer that he had 'nothing to declare but my genius'. In 1884, he married Constance Lloyd, a barrister's daughter, and embarked on a literary career. His first success was The Happy Prince (1888), but his novel

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