"Despite the number of his books and plays, Mr. Wilde was not, I think, what one calls a born writer. His writing seemed always to be rather an overflow of intellectual temperamental energy than an inevitable, absorbing function. That he never concentrated himself on any one form of literature is a proof that the art of writing never really took hold of him."
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Max Beerbohm, quoted in Saturday Review (8 December 1900)
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Oscar Wilde
1854 – 1900
irischer Schriftsteller
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