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 ''.

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

Wilde construction buried television cable and later branched into fiber optics.

Attendees included Ralph Bunche, Cornell Wilde, and, later, Ronald Reagan.

Jimmy Wilde's birth certificate shows he was born in the Taff Bargoed Valley community of Pentwyn Deintyr ) ( now known as the Graig ), Quakers Yard, Treharris, in the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil but his parents later moved to the village of Tylorstown in the Rhondda Valley when Wilde was twelve years old.

The record books often show that Wilde started boxing professionally in 1911 but it is widely assumed ( and later confirmed by boxing analysts ) that he had been fighting professionally for at least four years before that.

( The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, congratulates Jimmy Wilde.

His wife, Elizabeth, died in 1967, and two years later Wilde died in a hospital in Whitchurch.

Wilde also studied at the private and highly respected school of anatomy, medicine, and surgery in Park Street ( later Lincoln Place ), Dublin.

Because of Watts's paintings of her and her association with him, she " became a cult figure for poets and painters of the later Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic movements, including Oscar Wilde ".

She was then later cast as another scheming villain, Laura Wilde, in the BBC soap Howards ' Way in 1989.

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

Wyatt, Ayers and Hopper had been founding members of the Wilde Flowers, later incarnations of which would include future members of another Canterbury band, Caravan.

In the later years of his life he ' discovered ' Victorian poetry and composed some of his most profound and moving music to the words of William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Oscar Wilde and others.

EA Sports ' early motto was If it's in the game, it's in the game, later changed to " It's in the game " This tag line, strategized by Don Transeth, written by Jeff Odiorne and Michael Wilde, and delivered by the voice of EA Sports, Andrew Anthony, has become a cultural rallying cry throughout the sports universe.

As the initial wave of rock and roll declined in the later 1950s " big beat " music, later shortened to " beat ", became a live dance alternative to the balladeers like Tommy Steele, Marty Wilde and Cliff Richard who were dominating the charts.

Wilde later admitted to " not knowing the song terribly well " beforehand: " Basically we just went into the studio with a lot of energy and not a lot of reverence.

Ghose later met Oscar Wilde at the Fitzroy Street Settlement, who reviewed Primavera in Pall Mall Gazette, with particular favour towards Ghose.

The latter was a cousin of Vibhaji, the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar ; Ranjitsinhji's biographers later claimed that Jhalamsinjhi had shown bravery fighting for Vibhaji in a successful battle, but Simon Wilde suggests that this may be an invention encouraged by Ranjitsinhji.

Although they never released any records during their existence ( a compilation was released 30 years later ), The Wilde Flowers are acknowledged as the founders of the Canterbury scene and spawned its two most important groups, Soft Machine and Caravan.

" Sooner or later ," Wilde notes, " we shall all have to pay for what we do.

In the summer of 1893, Oscar Wilde began writing An Ideal Husband, and he completed it later that winter.

* Oscar Wilde ( 1987 ) see Horst Schroeder: Additions and Corrections to Richard Ellmann's OSCAR WILDE, second edition, revised and enlarged ( 2002 )

The alchemist's ( and Coelho's ) source was very probably Hesketh Pearson's The Life of Oscar Wilde ( 1946 ) in which this story is recorded ( Penguin edition, p. 217 ) as one of Wilde's inspired inventions.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine.

Even still, the story was greeted with outrage by British reviewers, some of whom suggested that Wilde should be prosecuted on moral grounds, leading Wilde to defend the novel aggressively in letters to the British press.

In 1975 he narrated The Remarkable Rocket, a short animation based on a story by Oscar Wilde.

The screenplay was adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a short story by Wilde that originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937.

In April 1937 he had read a short story by Hagar Wilde in Collier's magazine called Bringing Up Baby and immediately wanted to make a film out of it.

Hawks had decided that Wilde would develop the characters and comedic elements of the script, while Nichols would take care of the story and structure.

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.

* The forgotten story of ... the man who sought revenge for Jimmy Wilde

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.

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

The most famous exposition of the theory is in Oscar Wilde's short story " The Portrait of Mr. W. H .," in which Wilde, or rather the story's narrator, describes the puns on " will " and " hues " in the sonnets, ( notably Sonnet 20 among others ), and argues that they were written to a seductive young actor named Willie Hughes who played female roles in Shakespeare's plays.

She had been thinking about a story set during the time of Oscar Wilde for the next novel, but decided to abandon it and go back to the erotic writing she had explored in the 1960s.

Salomé's story was made the subject of a play by Oscar Wilde that premiered in Paris in 1896, under the French name Salomé.

*" The Star-Child ", a story in the A House of Pomegranates collection by Oscar Wilde

Early works that contained LGBT themes and showed the gay characters to be morally impure include the first lesbian vampire story " Carmilla " ( 1872 ) by Sheridan Le Fanu and The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ) by Oscar Wilde, which shocked contemporary readers with its sensuality and overtly homosexual characters.

The story inspired elements in the 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

He and Shannon were friends and supporters of Wilde, for whom Ricketts painted, in the style of Clouet, the hero of Wilde's short story, ' The Portrait of Mr. W. H .'"

At one specific point, Culp takes full control to talk to Jack, in the process making a mistake about the name of a Wilde story.

" The Canterville Ghost " is a popular short story by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage.

The story illustrates Wilde ’ s tendency to reverse situations into their opposites as the Otises gain the upper hand and succeed in terrorizing the ghost rather than be terrorized by him.

Humor is the most powerful weapon used by Wilde to defuse the tension and scary atmosphere that would have resulted in such a ghost story.