Oscar Wilde — Playwright and Poet
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Oscar Wilde, Playwright and Poet from Great Britain

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Playwright and Poet

Oscar Wilde was playwright and poet from Great Britain

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

Wilde wrote this line for Lord Darlington in 'Lady Windermere's Fan,' which premiered at the St James's Theatre in London on February 20, 1892. The play was his first theatrical triumph and ran for months.

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After two years of hard labor, Wilde left England in 1897, broken and bankrupt. He settled in Paris under the name Sebastian Melmoth. He wrote 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' but produced little else. On November 30, 1900, he died of meningitis in a small hotel room, aged forty-six. His tomb at Pere Lachaise draws thousands each year.

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