Oscar Wilde Essayist, dramatist, novelist, and poet Oscar Wilde was better known for his scandalous lifestyle than his literary theories and their execution in his dramas. However, subsequent generations have regularly revived his delightful comedies of manners, and now it seems as though his work will survive his notoriety. (Twentieth Century Literary Criticism) Literary critics were often unenthusiastic, or even hostile, toward his works, finding them to be overly contrived or recklessly immoral. (Critical Survey …showed first 75 words of 2213 total…

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