Authors

Oscar Wilde

Citation Formats

General Reference

Literature Atlas. "Oscar Wilde." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/authors/oscar-wilde.

APA Style

Literature Atlas. (n.d.). Oscar Wilde. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/authors/oscar-wilde

BibTeX

@misc{literatureatlas-oscar-wilde,
  author = {Literature Atlas},
  title = {Oscar Wilde},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/authors/oscar-wilde},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Oscar Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright who became a key figure of the Aestheticism movement of the late nineteenth century. Known for his epigrammatic wit, his plays and criticism, together with his own flamboyant public persona, made him the best known English language exponent of the idea of art for art's sake.

Facts

Birth Year

1854 1

Birth Date

1854-10-16 1

Death Year

1900 1

Death Date

1900-11-30 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Genre

Gothic Fiction

The Picture of Dorian Gray already in-genre Gothic Fiction; Wilde himself carried no in-genre edge to it.

Source Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia)

In Movement

Aestheticism

Source Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia)

Works Attributed

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wikipedia)

Sources

1. Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia)

Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Aestheticism section

Quote, Aestheticism section

He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era.

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1. Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia)

Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Lead section, parenthetical dates

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