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Poet and Playwright, Oscar Wilde

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He might have written his work over a hundred years ago, but Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde is one of those names that will forever be taught in literary classes. Best known for his novels The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Duchess of Padua, amongst many others, Wilde also spent his time giving lectures to up to 200,000 people at once. He even spent one night in a silver mine in Colorado, explaining, “I dined with the men down there. They were great, strong, well-formed men, of graceful attitude and free motion. Poems everyone one of them. A complete democracy underground. I find people less rough and coarse in such places. There is no chance for roughness. The revolver is their book of etiquette.”