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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances... Read Full Overview

A menudo, la gente reprocha a los escritores y artistas que s lo sean hombres de acci n de un modo imperfecto e incompleto. Y sin embargo, es muy normal que as sea. Esa concentraci n del pensamiento, ese ardor vehemente que caracterizan el temperamento del artista, excluyen a... Read Full Overview

It has constantly been made a subject of reproach against artists and men of letters that they are lacking in wholeness and completeness of nature. As a rule this must necessarily be so. That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of... Read Full Overview

A menudo, la gente reprocha a los escritores y artistas que s?lo sean hombres de acci?n de un modo imperfecto e incompleto. Y sin embargo, es muy normal que as? sea. Esa concentraci?n del pensamiento, ese ardor vehemente que caracterizan el temperamento del artista, excluyen... Read Full Overview