Wilde

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2020-02-08 14:02
Character Key Number: 
2371
Display Name: 
Wilde
Sort Name: 
Wilde, Oscar
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

According to Mr. Compson, the scene in Absalom! in the Sutpen graveyard with Bon's wife and child "must have resembled a garden scene by the Irish poet, Wilde" (157). Wilde - who died in 1900, nine years before Mr. Compson would have said this - wrote in many genres, but in particular his poetry was an important influence on the apprentice work of William Faulkner.

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