BIOGRAPHY OF OSCAR WILDE

Oscar Wilde was born October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland into an Irish Protestant family. It was the second of the three children physician Sir Williams Robert Wills Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Elgee. She was a successful writer and nationalist Irish cause, known with the nickname of Speranza. His father was a prominent surgeon Otolaryngologist, apart from a renowned philanthropist (ran a clinic in Dublin to indigent care). He studied at the Portora Royal School of Euniskillen, Trinity College Dublin and then at Magdalen College, Oxford, Centre where he stayed from 1874 to 1878 and in which he received the Newdigate prize of poetry, which enjoyed great prestige at the time. Oscar Wilde combined their university studies with travel (1877 visited Italy and Greece), while we published in several newspapers and magazines his first poems, which were gathered in 1881 in poems. The following year undertook a journey to United States, which offered a series of lectures on his theory of aesthetic philosophy, which defended the idea of "art for art's sake", and which sat the bases of which subsequently gave call Dandyism. Upon his return, Oscar Wilde did the same in universities and British cultural centers, where he was exceptionally well received. It was also in France, country visited in 1883 and which became friends with Verlaine and other writers of the time.  In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, who bore him two children, who rejected the last name after the events of 1895. Wilde's success was based on stinging and epigrammatic wit that derrochaba works, almost always devoted to denounce the hypocrisy of his contemporaries. The picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde, whose authorship reported fierce criticism from Puritan and conservative quarters due to your misrepresentation of the subject of Faust's only novel. Not declined, however, his popularity as a dramatist, raised with works such as Salome (1891), written in French, or the importance of being earnest (1895), loaded with irony and living dialogues works. Its success, however, was truncated in 1895 when Marquis Queenberry started a campaign of defamation in magazines and newspapers accusing him of homosexual. Wilde, for its part, tried to defend a defamatory against Queenberry, process but without success, because the evidence submitted by the latter gave evidence of facts that could be judged in the light of the Criminal Act Amendement.  Oscar Wilde may 27, 1895 was sentenced to two years imprisonment and forced labour. Numerous pressures and clemency petitions made from progressive sectors and several of the most important European literary circles were not heard and writer was forced to fulfil completely the penalty. Sent to Wandsworth and Reading, where he wrote the later acclaimed Ballad of Reading, prison sentence meant the loss of everything that had been achieved during the years of glory.  Hoard freedom, changed its name and surname (adopted from Sebastian Melmoth) and emigrated to Paris, where he remained until his death. His last life years were characterized by economic fragility, their losses of health problems resulting from their hobby to drink and a last-minute approach to Catholicism. Only posthumously his works returned to represent and edit it. In 1906, Richard Strauss made music his Salome drama, and with the passage of the years practically all of his literary production was translated into several languages.