Oscar Wilde is the most famous and the most outstanding figure of Aesthetes’ group. Like other aesthetes, he attempted to live entirely by self induced set of sensory principles.
He was born in Dublin of noble Celtic parentage. Lady Wilde, his mother, was disappointed at not having had a girl, so the tried to give her son as much of a female upbringing as possible. Oscar distinguished himself in Oxford.
He came to London and soon attracted a considerable amount attention by his eccentricities, of declaring himself a “professor of aesthetic”, and wearing long curly locks. By their strong situations, extraordinary incidents, and striking action, they rues into a different world beyond the humdrum and work-a day world in which we live and move.