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Oscar Wilde

Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland, on October 16, 1854, of talented and professional parents. His mother composed patriotic verse and published collections of Irish stories under the pen name "Speranza," or "hope."

Rome Unvisited

by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

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The corn has turned from grey to red,

Since first my spirit wandered forth

From the drear cities of the north,

And to Italia's mountains fled.

And here I set my face towards home,

For all my pilgrimage is done,

Although, methinks, yon blood-red sun

Marshals the way to Holy Rome.

O Blessed Lady, who dost hold

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October 16

Oscar Wilde born, 1854

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Question:

Whose heteronyms, to borrow Fernando Pessoa's word, included professor Abel Martin and his student Juan de Mairena?

Answer

Antonio Machado Ruiz collected a number of sayings by these apocryphal thinkers, which he called "complementarios." The student, an iconoclast, often reported and critiqued the sayings of the teacher, whose philosophy resembled that of Gottfried Leibniz. There was a third identity as well, but he did not write much.

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