When Wilde returned from America he went to Paris. On his arrival he told the customs agent: "I have nothing to declare but my genius."
Soon after, he was invited to come to America himself to lecture on aesthetics. He began a five-act tragedy that developed into The Duchess of Padua. Miss Mary Anderson, a New York actress, asked him to write a play for her. Interest in Wilde spread across the ocean to America. They elicited a somewhat hostile reaction from critics, but they had popular appeal and went into five editions. The following year, he published his collected poems at his own expense. In 1880 he wrote his first play, Vera, though it was not performed. 1878: Oscar Wilde during his time at Oxford.Īt Oxford, he began to write reviews of London art exhibits.
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