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Oscar Wilde was a leader in promoting the Aestheticism movement near the end of the Nineteenth Century . Wilde was influenced as a college student by the works of the English poet and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne and the American writer Edgar Allan Poe . He advocated freedom from moral restraint and the limitations of society. This point of view contradicted contemporary Victorian conventions. The most important of Wilde’s critical works, published in May 1891, is a volume titled ''Intentions''. It consists of four essays: “The Decay of Lying,” “Pen, Pencil and Poison,” “The Critic as Artist,” and “The Truth of Masks.” SOURCE Cliff's Notes: Oscar Wilde's Aesthetics |
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