Wilde Wins Scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford
Poet involved
What happened
Wilde earned a demyship scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, England, where he studied Literae Humaniores and came under the influence of critics John Ruskin and Walter Pater. His time at Oxford immersed him fully in the emerging Aesthetic movement.
Literary impact
Ruskin's moral seriousness and Pater's doctrine of art for art's sake gave Wilde the intellectual framework for his aestheticism, directly shaping the philosophy behind his poetry, criticism, and later 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'.
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