Despite his protestations, Oscar Wilde was more scholar than dilettante

Oscar Wilde may have forsworn a life as “a dried-up Oxford don,” but his classics training in tragedy, syllogism, and rhetorical style made itself felt in his writing, says Daniel Mendelsohn.


Categories

Newsletter Signup

Subscribe to my free newsletter, Ancestor Trouble.

Newsletter

You might want to subscribe to my free Substack newsletter, Ancestor Trouble, if the name makes intuitive sense to you.