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Article: Oscar Wilde.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- February 13, 1988
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OSCAR WILDE.
By Richard Ellmann. Alfred A. Knopf. 630 pp. $24.95.
Although Oscar Wilde did not live out the first year of this century, his name continues to appear wherever sexual relations between men are described. To cite just one notable recent example: In its front-page coverage of last October's March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, The Washington Post characterized the gathering of over 500,000 people by saying, "Yesterday's rally would have astounded Oscar Wilde, the nineteenth century author and playwright once jailed for engaging in what he called 'the love that dared not speak its name.'" This single, not quite accurate historical ...