Victorian Poets - Oscar Wilde, Emily Bronte, Edward Lear, William Morris, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 112. Chapters: Oscar Wilde, Emily Bronte, Edward Lear, William Morris, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William McGonagall, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Andrew Lang, Robert Bridges, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Woolner, Charlotte Mew, W. S. Gilbert, Lewis Carroll, George Moore, Richard Jefferies, Elizabeth Siddal, James Henry Leigh Hunt, John Clare, Thomas Hood, Harry Buxton Forman, Willie Wilde, Arthur Hallam, Arthur Hugh Clough, Alfred Austin, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Henry Newbolt, Coventry Patmore, Robert Williams Buchanan, William Canton, James Thomson, Edward Slow, Dolly Peel, Violet Fane, William Brighty Rands, May Probyn, Annie Matheson. Excerpt: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. He also profoundly explored Roman Catholicism, to which he would later convert on his deathbed. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States of America and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art," and th...