Themes in Literature/Isolation and Community/Oscar Wilde

__NOTOC__ thumb|303x303px|Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright who lived in the Victorian Era, a time of great wealth inequality. He was widely known as a society wit and as an advocate of the Aesthetic Movement, which advocated "art for the sake of the art." The Happy Prince and Other Tales and its follow-up, the fairy-tale collection A House of Pomegranates are part of his early work, written after the birth of his two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan. Wilde's best-known work for adults (Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Picture of Dorian Gray ) was published during the last decade of his life. After losing a libel case against the marquess of Queensberry, who had accused him of being a "sodomite," Wilde had to serve two years of prison with hard labor, after which he moved to France. He died penniless in Paris, of meningitis, on November 30, 1900.Wikipedia contributors. "Oscar Wilde." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 27 Sep. 2022. Web. 6 Nov. 2022. Beckson, Karl. "Oscar Wilde". Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Oct. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Wilde. Accessed 6 November 2022. Ellman, Richard. Oscar Wilde. 1st American ed. New York: Knopf, 1988. Print. References