Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

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“Earnest Lies and Serious Nonsense: Oscar Wilde’s Comedy of Perfect Pretence” A comedy where names matter more than character, love begins with a misunderstanding, and sincerity is strictly optional. ABS BELIEVES  Society prefers well-dressed lies to badly spoken truths.Wilde laughs at morality because he understands it too well.In a world obsessed with appearances, pretending is […]

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3. Late Victorian Poets and the Aesthetic Turn (1860s–1901)

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From the Last Glow of Beauty to the First Shadows of Modern Doubt From The Professor’s Desk As the long Victorian century neared its close, the tone of its poetry grew more muted, its certainties more fragile. This was the realm of Late Victorian Poets and the Aesthetic Turn—a moment when verse turned inward, away

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