Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

* 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.

Likewise, Oscar Wilde wrote, " We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language " ( The Canterville Ghost, 1888 ).

For Oscar Wilde the contemplation of beauty for beauty's sake was not only the foundation for much of his literary career but was quoted as saying " Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful.

* 1895 – Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

", written after the trial of Oscar Wilde, addressed more general social injustice towards homosexuality.

Later important examples of the poetic form included Rudyard Kipling ’ s ‘ Barrack Room Ballads ’ ( 1892-6 ) and Oscar Wilde ’ s ‘ Ballad of Reading Gaol ’ ( 1897 ).

Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker.

Given these connotations, dandyism can be seen as a political protestation against the rise of levelling egalitarian principles, often including nostalgic adherence to feudal or pre-industrial values, such as the ideals of " the perfect gentleman " or " the autonomous aristocrat ", though paradoxically, the dandy required an audience, as Susann Schmid observed in examining the " successfully marketed lives " of Oscar Wilde and Lord Byron, who exemplify the dandy's roles in the public sphere, both as writers and as personae providing sources of gossip and scandal.

It contains Christopher Street and the Stonewall Inn, important landmarks, as well as the world's oldest gay and lesbian bookstore, Oscar Wilde Bookshop, founded in 1967.

Patience ( 1881 ) satirised the aesthetic movement in general and its colourful poets, in particular, combining aspects of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler and others in the rival poets Bunthorne and Grosvenor.

Richard D ' Oyly Carte was the booking manager for Oscar Wilde, a then lesser-known proponent of aestheticism, and dispatched Wilde on an American lecture tour in conjunction with the opera's U. S. run, so that American audiences might better understand what the satire was all about.

A secret British society called the " Order of Chaeronea " campaigned for the legalisation of homosexuality, and counted playwright Oscar Wilde among its members in the last decades of the 19th century.

Within weeks of the Stonewall Riots, Craig Rodwell, proprietor of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop in lower Manhattan, was working to commemorate them by replacing the Annual Reminder, which had been held annually in at Independence Hall in Philadelphia since 1965, with a celebration of the Stonewall Riots.

Oscar Wilde, famous anarchist irish people | irish writer of the decadent movement and famous dandyThe English enlightenment political theorist William Godwin was an important influence as mentioned before.

The Irish anarchist writer of the Decadent movement Oscar Wilde influenced individualist anarchists such as Renzo Novatore and gained the admiration of Benjamin Tucker.

" Woodcock finds that " The most ambitious contribution to literary anarchism during the 1890s was undoubtedly Oscar Wilde The Soul of Man under Socialism " and finds that it is influenced mainly by the thought of William Godwin.

These authors and activists included Oscar Wilde, Emile Armand, Han Ryner, Henri Zisly, Renzo Novatore, Miguel Gimenez Igualada, Adolf Brand and Lev Chernyi among others.

Oscar Wilde, famous anarchist Irish people | Irish writer of the decadent movement and famous dandyThe anarchist writer and bohemian Oscar Wilde wrote in his famous essay The Soul of Man under Socialism that " Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

Milford composed the music for Salome, based on the Oscar Wilde play and also starred in it as Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles in 1979.

* 1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer ( d. 1900 )

* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), Irish writer and poet

* November 30 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer ( b. 1854 )

* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 )

* November 30 — Oscar Wilde, Irish celebrity, poet, dramatist and short story writer ( born 1854 )

* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), Irish writer

She married Sir William Wilde on 12 November 1851, and they had three children: William ' Willie ' Charles Kingsbury Wilde ( 1852 – 1899 ), Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), and Isola Francesca Emily Wilde ( 1857 – 1867 ).

In Chapter 18 of the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), the character Lord Henry Wotton says to a young Dorian Gray: " The only horrible thing in the world is ennui, Dorian.

* Oscar Walker ( 1854 – 1889 ), Major League Baseball player

Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), though born and raised in Ireland, spent the greater part of his life in England.

Boucicault is widely regarded as the wittiest Irish dramatist between Sheridan and Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ).

* Prince Carl Oscar ( 1852 – 1854 )

*** ( 1. 1. 1. 1 ) Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland, born 14 December 1852 ; died 13 March 1854

Darré was born in Belgrano, a Buenos Aires neighbourhood, in Argentina to Richard Oscar Darré, a German with Huguenot ancestry, ( born 10 March 1854, Berlin ; died 20 February 1929, Wiesbaden ) and the half-Swedish / half-German Emilia Berta Eleonore, née Lagergren ( born 23 July 1872, Buenos Aires ; died 20 July 1936, Bad Pyrmont ).

Moritz had two sons with Rosalie, Otto ( 1854 – 1915 ) and Emil ( 1855 – 1915 ), and two with Anna, Hugo ( 1863 – 1916 ) and Oscar ( 1865 – 1920 ).

# Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland ( 14 December 1852 – 13 March 1854 ), who died in infancy

A considerable number of Jews have held diplomatic posts, among the more prominent being Mordecai M. Noah, consul to Tunis, 1813 – 16 ; Edwin de Leon, consul-general to Egypt, 1854 ; August Belmont, secretary of legation at The Hague, 1853 – 55, and minister resident, 1855 – 58 ; Oscar S. Straus, minister to Turkey, 1887 – 89, 1897 – 1900 ; Solomon Hirsch, minister to Turkey, 1889 – 92 ; B. F. Peixotto, consul to Bucharest, 1870 – 76 ; Simon Wolf, consul-general to Egypt, 1881 ; Max Judd, consul-general to Vienna, 1893 – 97 ; and Lewis Einstein, third secretary of embassy at Paris, 1903, and London, 1905.

In 1854, Oscar Wilde was born 16 October.

* Oscar Fingal O ' Flahertie Wills Wilde 16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900, Irish writer and poet

* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), visited the opium dens near Dellow Street

* 1925 – Oscar Peterson, Canadian pianist and composer ( d. 2007 )

* 1958 – Oscar Collodo, Swiss-Italian rugby player and coach

* 2000 – The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.

* 1876 – Oscar De Somville, Belgian rower ( d. 1938 )

* 1954 – Oscar Larrauri, Argentine race car driver

He taught at the Universidade de São Paulo, 1945 – 47, where he worked with Oscar Zariski.

Saint Ansgar, Anskar or Oscar, ( September 8, 801 – February 3, 865, in Bremen ) was an Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen.

* 1899 – Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician ( d. 1986 )

* 1907 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect

* 1906 – Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer and actor ( d. 1972 )

Some of the most influential contemporary classical double bass players are known as much for their contributions to pedagogy as for their performing skills, such as US bassist Oscar G. Zimmerman ( 1910 – 1987 ), known for his teaching at the Eastman School of Music and, for 44 summers at the Interlochen National Music Camp in Michigan and French bassist François Rabbath ( b. 1931 ) who developed a new bass method that divided the entire fingerboard into six positions.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

* 1949 – Oscar Gamble, American baseball player

* 1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

* 1929 – Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer

* 1920 – Oscar Brand, Canadian folk musicologist

* 1911 – Oscar Heidenstam, English bodybuilding champion ( d. 1991 )

* 1958 – Oscar Schmidt, Brazilian basketball player

* 1907 – Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter ( d. 2008 )