A Brilliant Student
(Oscar Wilde)
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Though he was certainly aware of the details of the Mary
Travers affair, young Oscar was proud of his father, and
especially proud to be the son of a knight. Although Oscar
had acquired his mother?s aristocratic affectations even as
a boy, he didn?t stand out at Enniskillen, the private
boarding school he attended. That changed when he
matriculated at Dublin University?s Trinity College when he
was 17. Within the first year, his teachers could see that
he was a brilliant student of the Classics. Oscar could see
it too, and a talent as rare as his should not be consigned
to a provincial college, he thought. Oxford, a school that
could confer the prestige he thought he deserved, seemed a
better choice. In his third year at Dublin, he competed for
a scholarship at Oxford?s Magdalen College and won.
Oscar arrived at Oxford in 1874 and quickly fell in with a
new literary movement called aestheticism that was stirring
controversy amongst the English literary set. The English
aesthetic movement was calculated to shock the Victorian
middle class by rejecting the popular notion that a work of
literature should be a sort of sermon that serves some
higher spiritual purpose. Walter Pater, a leader of the
movement and one of Wilde?s favorite professors, replaced
core Victorian middle class themes like authenticity,
nature, and romance with artifice, sophisticated
connoisseurship, and most subversively, individual
pleasure.
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