To Milton by Oscar Wilde
Story type: LiteratureMilton! I think thy spirit hath passed awayFrom these white cliffs and high-embattled towers;This gorgeous fiery-coloured world …
Oscar Wilde
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, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.
The Truth of Masks – A Note On Illusion by Oscar Wilde
Story type: LiteratureIn many of the somewhat violent attacks that have recently been made on that splendour of mounting which now characterises our S …
A Florentine Tragedy – A Fragment by Oscar Wilde
Story type: TheaterCHARACTERS:GUIDO BARDI, A Florentine princeSIMONE, a merchantBIANCA, his wifeThe action takes place at Florence in the early sixtee …
La Sainte Courtisane – A Fragment by Oscar Wilde
Story type: TheaterThe scene represents the corner of a valley in the Thebaid. On the right hand of the stage is a cavern. In front of the cavern stan …
The Fisherman and his Soul by Oscar Wilde
Story type: Literature[TO H.S.H. ALICE, PRINCESS OF MONACO]Every evening the young Fisherman went out upon the sea, and threw his nets into the water. …
The Star-Child by Oscar Wilde
Story type: Literature[TO MISS MARGOT TENNANT–MRS. ASQUITH]Once upon a time two poor Woodcutters were making their way home through a great pine-fores …