Oscar Wilde

My full name is Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde and I am applying for the spot as any of the following open spots as: Author, poet, or a dramatist. I was born in Dublin, Ireland on October 16, 1854. My father is Sir William Wilde who is a very well-known surgeon. My mother is Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde and she is a poet who worked under the nickname Speranza. I also have a lot of siblings. Five of them! Their names are Henry, Emily, William, Mary, and Isola. Due to my mother’s literary successes, I have grown up with a cultured and privileged childhood. My mother’s job as a poet inspired me to become one as well. After finishing my schooling at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, Ireland, I moved back to my hometown Dublin. As soon as I was at my hometown, I was ready to start my writing career, to start with, I attended Trinity College to study the classics from 1871-1874. While I was still learning under Trinity College, I was already attracting public attention through the uniqueness of my writing and lifestyle. Due to my uniqueness, it I was awarded with many honors, including the Berkely Gold Medal for Greek. By the time I finished Trinity College, I moved to Oxford, England and entered the Magdalen College. I started to write poems, and in 1878 I was awarded the Newdigate Prize for my poem “Revenna.” Prior to my next six years of active writing, I first published my well-received poems in 1881. The goal through my writing is the glorification of youth. My writing attracted a group of followers who were purposefully unproductive and artificial. In 1894, I wrote “The first duty of life,” in my Phases of Philosophies for the Use of the Young, which in it was “to be as artificial as possible.” Later in my life, I moved to the United States and spent an entire year in lecturing, then returned lecture in England. When I returned to England I applied for a position as a school inspector, but I was unsuccessful in doing so. In 1884, I began to publish