title: Complete Poetry (Oxford World's Classics)
author:  Oscar Wilde 
description: Isobel Murray is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. She has edited four previous editions of Wilde's work for OUP, including Oxford Authors, Oscar Wilde, and published mant articles on his work.
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  OSCAR WILDE: COMPLETE SHORT FICTION
  
  
  OSCAR FINGAL O’FLAHERTIE WILLS WILDE, was born in Dublin in 1854, the son of
  an eminent eye-surgeon and a nationalist poetess who wrote under the pseudonym
  of ‘Speranza’. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen
  College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or ‘Art for
  Art’s sake’) Movement. Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for
  poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford fellowship, and was forced to earn a
  living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. He published a largely
  unsuccessful volume of poems in 1881 and in the next year undertook a lecture
  tour of the United States in order to promote the D’Oyly Carte production of
  Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera _Patience_. After his marriage to Constance
  Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little
  initial succ