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 ).

* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), author and playwright ( educated in Portora Royal School )

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.

A critical and financial success, it earned Siodmak his only Oscar nomination for direction in Hollywood ( his German production The Devil Came at Night ( Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam ) would be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1956 ).

Indeed, the great critical success of Sciuscià ( the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ) and Bicycle Thieves helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Oscar.

Green Card was a box-office hit but was regarded as less of a critical success, although it helped Depardieu's path to international fame, and Weir received an Oscar nomination for his original screenplay.

( 1969 ) won her critical acclaim, and she earned her first Oscar nomination for the role.

Another significant role in the fall of 1931 saw Karloff play a key supporting part as an unethical newspaper reporter in Five Star Final, a harshly critical film about tabloid journalism which was nominated for an Oscar as Best Picture of 1931-32.

Although she had already received some critical acclaim, she gained mainstream success after being cast as Matron " Mama " Morton in the Oscar-winning film adaptation of the musical Chicago, the recipient of the Best Picture Oscar.

" In addition to her Oscar nomination, Morton's performance was met with critical acclaim, with Salon. com critic Stephanie Zacharek saying that she " quietly explodes film ...

The year involved the deaths of at least several highly prominent writers, including among them the following: The late poet Oscar Wilde ( a " celebrity " poet in late-19th century western European society ), the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( critical and acclaimed philologist of Weimar Classicism and one of the most famous German thinkers ), the English poet Ernest Dowson ( marking the death of one of the last notable poets of the Decadent movement ), John Ruskin ( one of the most important historical art critics and an influential essayist ), Francišak Bahuševič ( a literary pioneer of New Belarusian literature ), Stephen Crane, R. D. Blackmore and José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, often considered the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style.

The Godfather was an unparalleled critical and financial success, becoming the highest grossing film of the year and winning the Best Picture Oscar of 1972.

The film was a financial and critical success, garnering four Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, and Best Cinematography ..

Two years later he received critical praise and earned a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe along with Oscar nominations for his role in Crash, a film co-written and directed by Paul Haggis.

The next Merchant-Ivory project Shakespeare Wallah ( 1965 ), was a critical success, and it was followed by a number of other collaborations between the three, including an adaptation of Jhabvala's novel Heat and Dust, ( 1983 ); the docudrama The Courtesans of Bombay ( 1983 ); A Room with a View ( 1985 ), for which she won her first Oscar ; Mr. and Mrs. Bridge ( 1990 ); Howards End ( 1992 ), her second Oscar win ; and The Remains of the Day ( 1993 ), for which she was nominated for a third Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, though she did not win.

The next year, 2003, was called " the year of Quebec cinema's rebirth " with Denys Arcand winning the foreign film Oscar for Les Invasions barbares, the sequel of Le déclin de l ' empire américain, and with Gaz Bar Blues and Seducing Doctor Lewis gaining both critical and public acclaim.

He achieved critical acclaim the following year, 1991, when he produced Rambling Rose, through his own recently formed Midnight Sun Pictures, for director Martha Coolidge which won him the Best Feature award at the 1992 Independent Spirit Awards and got his star and then partner Laura Dern a Best Actress Oscar nomination at the 1992 Academy Awards.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone was even more critical of the film, doubting it existed for any purpose other than to get Jessica Lange an Oscar nomination, bluntly stating " real-life tragedy has been used to hype cheap melodrama.

Klute, the story of a relationship between a private eye ( played by Donald Sutherland ) and a call girl ( played by Jane Fonda, who won an Oscar for her performance ), was a commercial and critical success.

The film opened in various countries to critical acclaim and received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature at the United States Academy Awards.

Her performance in 1981's Heartaches generated critical acclaim and Oscar buzz.

Michael Cimino made the successful film The Deer Hunter, which was a commercial and critical success, winning the Oscar for Best Picture.

* Swedish King Oscar II's, disappointment with Norway had reached critical mass-calling for the excommunication of Norway and the later celebration of Tolfte Maj ( May 12 ) throughout Sweden.