Oscar Wilde was one of the Victorian aesthetes* and tried to write the work that should be beautiful in its colour and cadence. His writing is highly wrought. Despite the fact that O.Wilde has probably been written about more than most nineteenth-century writers, his place and reputation continue to be uncertain (Refine).
Wilde�s extraordinary personality and wit have so dominated the imaginations of most biographers and critics that their estimates of his work have too often consisted of sympathetic tributes to a writer whose literary production was little more than a faint reflection of his brilliant talk or the manifestation of what a reviewer for the �Times Literary Supplement� called his �lawlessness�. Indeed, Wilde�s remark that he had put his genius into his life and only his talent into his art has provided support to those who regard his life as the primary object of interest (Refine)..
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1854 year. His full name was Oscar Fingal O�Flahertie Wills Wilde. Oscar named in honour of his godfather, King Oscar I of Sweden � would eventually drop his three middle names. He said that a name that was destined to be in everybody�s mouth must not be too long. He was going to be famous (Refine).
At age 20, Wilde left Ireland to study at Oxford University where he had a brilliant career, where he took a first-class both in classical moderation and in literature, and also won the Newdigate Prize for English verse for a poem on �Ravenna�. Even before he left the University in 1878 Wilde had become known as one of the most affected of the professors of the aesthetic movement, which advanced the new concept of �Art for Art�s Sake� (Refine).
Wilde was a man of great originality and power of mind. He quickly became a prominent personality in literary and social circles, but the period of his true achievement did not begin until he published �The Happy Prince and other tales� in 1888. In these fairy tales and fables, Wilde found a literary form well suited to his talents. There nine stories all together (originally published in two volumes � �The Happy Prince� � 1888 and �A House of Pomegranates� � 1891) � five in the first volume and four in the second. These stories review and uneasy blend of the moral and the fantastic (Refine).