A glimpse of O. Wilde Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and worked as a journalist. I would like to tell you about his imprisonment, because it’s an unusual case in writers’ lives. Mr Wilde went to prison because of the relationship with Alfred Douglas, a British poet and translator. The father of this men had injured the mr Wilde calling him a bugger and began legal process. In those days sodomy was still forbidden. Mr Wilde defended a case very tellingly and ardently and tried to assure the judge their love was platonic. But despite of these words he was jailed behind bars for 2 years. The prison broke his spirit, what‘s more his beloved Douglas never made a visit to him. And he died in exile in France, there was nobody with him. His death was very painful. On his grave was a stone Sphinx stated, in honour of his story «The Sphinx without a secret». After awhile this tombstone was spread with kisses and they have decided to fence it, to protect against the lipstick marks.