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Irish playwright and poet. He was a flamboyant man with a taste for everything beautiful. He was satirized and generally made fun of for his aesthetic pleasures by his collegues. That did not diminish his literary achievmants though, he wrote a number of poems and plays. He took a male lover and when the father found out he spread a vicious series of rumours and slander about him. When Wilde foolishly tried to take the man to court for slander, he was charged and tried for homosexual practices and jailed.
Peniless, friendless, he died in France under an assumed name.
Great Works-Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Importance of Being Earnest, Poems