The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde He was an Irish poet and playwright. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays. His parents were Anglo – Irish in Dublin. He was very fluent in French and German. In 1855 the family moved to No.1 Merrion Square. Until nine Oscar Wilde was educated at home where a French nursemaid and a German governess taught him their languages. Oscar Wilde impressed his peers with his humorous and school stories. His oral translation of Greek and Latin texts won him multiple prizes. He was one of best at Portora to win a Royal school scholarship to Trinity in1871. At Trinity Oscar Wilde established himself as an outstanding student. He won the demy ship, a half – scholarship worth £95(£8,900 today) per year to Magdalen College Oxford. Catholicism deeply impressed him. He was speechless after an audience with pope Pius Ⅸ in Rome. Wilde won the 1878 Newdigate Prize for his work Ravenna (poem). He in mid1881 at 27 years old published poems which collected revised. On May...