2020 №1 (66) Article 12

Valova O. M. 

Oscar Wilde’s Views on Romanticism P.94-101.

UDC  821.111«18»

Oscar Wilde, an artist infatuated with surreal, imaginary, fantastic, and bizarre, is greatly influenced by the literary movement of romanticism. According to Wilde, adherents of romanticism are poets capable of uniquely transmuting the commonly perceived world. Wilde believes that Christ, Dante, Durer, and Keats are true forerunners of romanticism. He believes that many of his contemporaries adhere to romanticism, too. In his works, Oscar Wilde sympathizes with his characters that have no utilitarian goal. The temporal and spatial dimensions of his works are often vague and tentative, for Wilde is more interested in the essence of phenomena. Oscar Wilde admires D. Keats for the latter’s artistic perception and creativity. Both poets believe that beauty is the true essence of all beings. Both poets seek inspiration in their contemporaries’ and predecessors’ works rather than in the surrounding world. Oscar Wilde shares P. B. Shelley’s views on drama. P. B. Shelley’s views and the plot of his verse drama “The Cenci” are discernible in Wilde’s play “The Duchess of Padua”. Wilde is obviously interested in H. Heine’s works, hence, Wilde’s infatuation with everything mysterious and bizarre and his neglect of everyday routine. Like other romanticists, Wilde is interested in transient and ambivalent states and values artistic presentation above all.

 

  1. Heine; D. Keats; Herodias; P. Shelley; romanticism

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