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Oscar Wilde Wrote This More Than 130 Years Ago—and It May Be More Relevant Than Ever

Thanks to his classics—such as his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his play, The Importance of Being Earnest—Oscar Wilde’s name is pretty well-known. Born in Dublin in 1854, Wilde grew up to be a poet and dramatist with “an Irish wit,” per Britannica. In his comedic works and poetry, he became “the master of the epigram”—a short and witty poem, saying or verse that’s also often satirical—and was “a spokesman” for the Aesthetic movement of 19th-century England (this movement “advocated art for art’s sake”). As Biography.com reported, while his only book was “panned” by critics at the time,…

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