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

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.

The Vail Film Festival in Vail, Colorado, is one of the " Top 10 destination film festivals in the world " ( MovieMaker magazine ), screens over 90 films, features mostly new filmmakers and honors Rising Stars, including Jesse Esienberg, Olivia Wilde, and many more.

" For anarchist historian George Woodcock " Wilde's aim in The Soul of Man under Socialism is to seek the society most favorable to the artist ... for Wilde art is the supreme end, containing within itself enlightenment and regeneration, to which all else in society must be subordinated ... Wilde represents the anarchist as aesthete.

" 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.

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.

" For anarchist historian George Woodcock " Wilde's aim in The Soul of Man under Socialism is to seek the society most favorable to the artist ... for Wilde art is the supreme end, containing within itself enlightenment and regeneration, to which all else in society must be subordinated ... Wilde represents the anarchist as aesthete.

Oscar Wilde, famous anarchist Irish people | Irish writer who published the libertarian socialist work titled The Soul of Man under SocialismThe 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.

" For anarchist historian George Woodcock " Wilde's aim in The Soul of Man under Socialism is to seek the society most favorable to the artist ... for Wilde art is the supreme end, containing within itself enlightenment and regeneration, to which all else in society must be subordinated .... Wilde represents the anarchist as aesthete.

However, Wilde advocated non-capitalist individualism: " of course, it might be said that the Individualism generated under conditions of private property is not always, or even as a rule, of a fine or wonderful type " a critique which is " quite true.

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

In his important essay The Soul of Man under Socialism from 1891 Wilde defended socialism as the way to guarantee individualism and so he saw that " With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism.

Puns have long been used by comedy writers, such as William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and George Carlin.

" Instead, Wilde may have transposed his apprehension into Lord Chiltern's ( non-sexual ) blackmailing situation in the darker, political play, An Ideal Husband.

Some scholars believe that Wilde would today have wanted us to read the version he originally submitted to Lippincott's.

" Wilde later recounted a visit to a local saloon, " where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across.

A longstanding unsubstantiated rumor, which seems to have started while the film was still in production, suggests that its cast is composed entirely of gay and bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde, as per star and producer Nazimova's demand.

Other texts, especially from the symbolist writers, may have influenced Chambers as well: " Le Roi au masque d ' or " (" The king in the gold mask "), a short story written by Marcel Schwob — a French novelist and a friend of Oscar Wilde — was published in 1893 while Chambers was still studying in Paris.

Prisoners that have been held at the original prison include Ruth Ellis, Isabella Glyn, Christabel Pankhurst, and Oscar Wilde.

As a result of his faithfulness to Wilde even in death, Ross was vindictively pursued by Lord Alfred Douglas, who repeatedly attempted to have him arrested and tried for homosexual conduct.

She was introduced to the works of Anton Chekhov, a writer who proved to have greater influence upon her writing in the short term than Wilde, on whom she had been fixated.

The staff at Variety magazine gave the film a positive review, writing, " Sumptuous Technicolor mounting and a highly exploitable story lend considerable importance to Leave Her to Heaven that it might not have had otherwise ... Tierney and Wilde use their personalities in interpreting their dramatic assignments.

Notable winners have included Robert Stephen Hawker, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Laurence Binyon, Oscar Wilde, John Buchan, John Addington Symonds, James Fenton and Alan Hollinghurst.

Oscar Wilde is said to have visited South Hill Park but this has never been verified.

However, the overtly cosmopolitan Wilde was not to have much influence on the future course of Irish writing.

Thus by three days Thesiger missed being chief justice of the common pleas, for on 6 July Sir Nicholas Tindal died, and the seat on the bench, which would have been Thesiger's as of right, fell to the Liberal attorney-general, Sir Thomas Wilde.

A number of artists have performed covers of Kim Wilde songs, ranging from pop and rock to dance and death metal versions.

On 1 September 1996, Wilde married her co-star in Tommy, Hal Fowler, and expressed a desire to have children as soon as possible.

Couperus ' 1891 novel Noodlot (' Footsteps of Fate ') was much admired by Oscar Wilde, and many have noted stylistic similarities between Noodlot and Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Oscar Wilde, upon visiting the club in 1882, is reported to have said " I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

Other contributors have included Anthony Trollope, Frederick Engels, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Spencer Walpole, Arthur Patchett Martin, and Jamaican-born writer E. S. Dallas.

The antics of Coochy Cooty and paintings like " Oscar Wilde In Leadville " and " Appetite for Destruction ", which was featured as the cover for the Guns N ' Roses album of the same name, before controversy forced record company Geffen Records to move it to the inside sleeve, have raised many an eyebrow.

His Wilde Lectures at Oxford University – published as God, Jesus and Belief: The Legacy of Theism ( 1984 ) – explored a range of intellectual, moral and existential issues in contemporary philosophical theology, developing further his argument that Christian ethical and faith traditions continue to have an enduring value at a time when former patterns of belief have broken down.

Wilde also alleged that Gurucharan Singh Tohra, former President of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee ( SGPC ), had stated that Singh is not the Sikh leader of Sikhism in the Western World as he claimed, and that Tohra had denied the gurdwara committee has ever given the title of Siri Singh Sahib to Singh.

On June 15, 2010, gay news site TheSword. com stated that Koering went on a dinner date in Brainerd with gay pornographic actor Brandon Wilde.

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 ''.

Just about every notable figure of the period is connected with the events in some way, from " Elephant Man " Joseph Merrick to Oscar Wilde, from the Native American writer Black Elk to William Morris, the artist Walter Sickert to Aleister Crowley, who makes a brief appearance as a young boy in short trousers, sucking on a candy cane, and lecturing the police about magic.

Wilde's printing shop was in Golden Lion Court on Aldersgate Street, and Wilde had a reputation as " a master who grudged every hour ... that tended not to his profit ".

Hugh has become a bestselling author under the nom de plume of Alice Wilde, writing popular novels where " something happens in every paragraph " ( Will ).

Tree enjoyed the part of Lord Illingworth and continued to play it outside the theatre, leading Wilde to comment " every day Herbert becomes de plus en plus oscarisé " (" more and more Oscarised ").

Wilde proved to be a diligent reviser, sending detailed instructions on stage directions, character listings and the presentation of the book, and insisting that a playbill from the first performance be reproduced inside.

In part due to the criticism of the first edition, Wilde subsequently attempted to moderate some of the more homoerotic references in the book, and to simplify the book's moral message.

Gosse, Austin Dobson, Oscar Wilde, and Edwin Arlington Robinson were among the first English practitioners.

Wilde Lake was the first village area to be developed in Columbia ; accordingly, the town's first high school was Wilde Lake High School, which opened in 1971 as a " model school for the nation ".

* Hereward by James Wilde ( 2011 ), a " brutal novel of revenge ", first in a projected trilogy, with the next two titles, The Devil's Army and End of Days to be published in the future.

However in the 2002 film version which starred Judi Dench, Colin Firth, Rupert Everett and Reese Witherspoon-the lines were dropped even though this film re-incorporated episodes and characters in an earlier version of the play that Wilde had been encouraged to drop before the play's first performance.

Amongst the graduates are included notable people in the fields of arts and sciences like Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett ( Nobel Laureate in Literature ), Ernest Walton ( Nobel Laureate in Physics ), Mairead Maguire ( Nobel Laureate in Peace ), three holders of the office of President of Ireland, and one Premier of New Zealand ( Edward Stafford ); including Jaja Wachuku ( first indigenous Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria and first Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister ).

Chopin, played by Cornel Wilde, is first presented to the audience as a child prodigy playing a piece by Mozart, but suddenly starts to bang on the piano keys when he notices out the window that Polish people are being taken prisoners by the Russian authorities.

Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London.

Wilde, impressed by his confidence, opted to take a percentage instead, from which he would earn £ 7, 000 in the first year alone ( worth £ today ).

On 18 December, Wilde became recognised as the first World Flyweight Champion ( the IBU title was only recognised in Europe ) when he defeated Young Zulu Kid of the United States whose seconds threw in the towel during the eleventh round of their bout at the Holborn Stadium.

After losing by a knockout in seven to the Philippines ' first world champion, Wilde announced his retirement.

William Wilde, father of Oscar Wilde wrote a book about the lake, first published in 1867.

Some believe that Johann Wilde and Pere Amiot traveled to China and brought the first shengs to Europe in 1740 and 1777 respectively, although there is evidence that free reed musical instruments similar to shengs were known in Europe a century earlier.

In short order, a new building was built on the same site, and soon Harrods extended credit for the first time to its best customers, among them Oscar Wilde, Lillie Langtry, Ellen Terry, Charlie Chaplin, Noël Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Sigmund Freud, A.

Wilde later assisted Rodd in securing publication for his first book of verse, Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf, for which Wilde provided an introduction.

Although Wilde is best known for his plays, fiction, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, he also wrote poetry in a symbolist vein and was the first Irish writer to experiment with prose poetry.

The Happy Prince and Other Tales ( sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories ) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888.