![]() ![]() His first published volume, Poems, which met with some degree of approbation, appeared at this time. Largely on the strength of his public persona, Wilde undertook a lecture tour to the United States in 1882, where he saw his play Vera open-unsuccessfully-in New York. By 1879 he was already known as a wit and a dandy soon after, in fact, he was satirized in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience. He subsequently won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was heavily influenced by John Ruskin and Walter Pater, whose aestheticism was taken to its radical extreme in Wilde's work. ![]() He was born to a middle-class Irish family (his father was a surgeon) and was trained as a scholarship boy at Trinity College, Dublin. Flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde had a reputation that preceded him, especially in his early career. ![]()
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