A Brilliant Student
(Oscar Wilde)
Write your abstract here. 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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