Volume 11 , Issue 38

1882 - Education

1882 - Education -- Oscar Wilde arrived in New York in January and said, "I have nothing to declare by my genius." Irish-born essayist Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, 27, had made himself the apostle of an art for art's sake cult. Gilbert and Sullivan burlesqued his affectations in 1881 in their opera Patience with its character Bunthorne. Wilde would tour North America for a year lecturing on such subjects as "The English Renaissance of Art."

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