View Oscar Wilde Grave Glass Background. See more ideas about famous graves, tomb, university of reading. Oscar wilde earned very special place in literature thanks to his wittiness, and inclination to excessive behavior.

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Epstein's tomb of oscar wilde after cleaning and installation of glass panels, march 2012 (photographs by the author). He died penniless and alone in a paris hotel. Work was carried out on the gravestone because it was covered in lipstick marks left by tourists, which were gradually destroying it.

Wilde was a proponent of the aesthetic movement, which emphasized aesthetic values more than moral or social themes.

Late in 1900 he developed further infections which led to meningitis, and his subsequent death at the age of 46. High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the happy prince. His aestheticism was based on the cult of beauty and pleasure, a new 'hedonism' which was to replace the puritanism of victorian society. Whilst in reading gaol wilde received an ear injury which was not properly treated.