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Oscar Wilde. Aesthete of Aesthetes What’s in a name! The poet is WILDE, But his poetry’s tame.

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1 Oscar Wilde

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8 Aesthete of Aesthetes What’s in a name! The poet is WILDE, But his poetry’s tame.

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10 With Lord Afred Douglas (Bosie)

11 The Marquess of Queensberry's calling card with the offending inscription "For Oscar Wilde posing Somdomite"

12 Charles Gill (prosecuting): What is "the love that dares not speak its name?" Wilde: "The love that dares not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect.

13 The Picture of Dorian Gray

14 The Canterville Ghost

15 On Aestheticism Walter Pater

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17 Dandyism Sir Gauvain Amadis de Gaula Il Cortegiano L’ uomo universale Homme de qualité Dandy en fop

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19 Lord Foppington in The Relapse John Vanburgh

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22 Beau Brummell Prince Regent George IV

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24 Sir Percey Blakeney, baronet

25 We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell? That demmed, elusive Pimpernel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-qQ- rC5Ol4&feature=PlayList&p=85A4B7AC03 ABAA55&index=9

26 Blenheim Palace


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