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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Wilde praised "Melmoth" [the Wanderer] as a pioneering work of European Gothic fiction. He admitted, however, that it was stylistically "imperfect" and laughed at its ab...Oscar Wilde Charles MaturinMelmoth the WandererPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde also excelled in French. His copy of Voltaire's "Histoire de Charles XII" bears the autograph and date "Oscar Wilde September 2nd 1865 [...] On page 171 the ten-ye...Oscar Wilde VoltaireHistoire de Charles XIIPrint: Book
1850-1899'Surviving copies of his classics books - which contain copious and meticulous annotations concerning syntax and grammar - and his dazzling success in classical examinati...Oscar Wilde ['classics books']Print: Book
1850-1899'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers recalled, "a thing not easily to be forgotten." He ...Oscar Wilde Thucydides  Print: Book
1850-1899'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers recalled, "a thing not easily to be forgotten." He ...Oscar Wilde Plato  Print: Book
1850-1899'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers recalled, "a thing not easily to be forgotten." He ...Oscar Wilde Virgil  Print: Book
1850-1899'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers recalled, "a thing not easily to be forgotten." He ...Oscar Wilde Aeschylus AgamemnonPrint: Book
1850-1899'His peers were surprised to hear him speak disparagingly of Dickens, the most popular novelist of the day. While Wilde admired the author's humour and his gift for caric...Oscar Wilde Charles DickensnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's fellow pupils remarked on his veneration of the novels of Benjamin Disraeli, so it must have been a fairly unusual literary passion at Portora... Speranza litera...Oscar Wilde Benjamin DisraelinovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a boy [Wilde] "cared little for German literature, excepting only [Heinrich] Heine and Goethe."'Oscar Wilde Heinrich Heine Print: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by t...Oscar Wilde Honore de BalzacLost IllusionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by t...Oscar Wilde Honore de BalzacA Harlot High and LowPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by t...Oscar Wilde StendhalScarlet and BlackPrint: Book
1850-1899'The earliest of his extant volumes is a copy of Livy's "Roman History" which bears the date "November 1868" when Wilde was still at Portora. It is full of marginal notes...Oscar Wilde LivyRoman HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's copy of "The Bacchae of Euripides" edited by one of his Trinity tutors, R.Y. Tyrrell, has also survived. On the title-page of the famous play... Wilde wrote "Osc...Oscar Wilde EuripidesThe BacchaePrint: Book
1850-1899'The first volume of Symond's "Studies of the Greek Poets", issued in 1873, was "perpetually" in Wilde's "hands" at Trinity [Dublin]. The second volume came out in 1876, ...Oscar Wilde John Addington SymondsStudies of the Greek Poets, vols 1 and 2Print: Book
1850-1899'The annotations in Wilde's copy of J.E.T. Rodgers's edition of [Aristotle's] "Ethics", which is inscribed "Oscar Wilde, Magdalen College, October 1877", illustrate his p...Oscar Wilde Aristotle EthicsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Once again, Wilde assisted his mentor [Classical scholar John Pentland Mahaffy], this time by proof-reading "Rambles and Studies" before its original publication in 1876...Oscar Wilde John Pentland MahaffyRambles and StudiesManuscript: proofs
1850-1899'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with Swinburne (a copy of)"; in another, he mentioned "Th...Oscar Wilde Algernon SwinburneunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with Swinburne (a copy of)"; in another, he mentioned "Th...Oscar Wilde Thomas a KempisThe Imitation of ChristPrint: Book


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