Writer of the issue: Oscar Wilde

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Wilde maintained that 'to reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim'; yet, traces of his own life and his times always coloured his writing. His words in The Picture of Dorian Gray proved to be very damaging to him as they were used as evidence to incriminate him and sentence him to prison in his later years. His sharpness of wit cleverly concealed his intrusive opinions in his works. Oscar Wilde was not just a writer par excellence, he was also a man who lived life as he chose and paid a hefty price for it.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde – the man with three middle names – was born on 16 October 1854 to exceptionally talented and unconventional Anglo-Irish, Protestant parents: Sir William Wilde, renowned ear and eye surgeon, philanthropist, and a gifted writer and Jane Francesca Elgee, linguist, talented writer and Irish Nationalist. Wilde had a comfortable childhood and he went on to study Classics at Trinity College, Oxford where he won the Berkeley Gold Medal, the highest award for Classics for his poem Ravenna. Wilde's fond memories of a sojourn in Ravenna, Italy are captured touchingly in the eponymous long poem.
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