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DRAMATISTS > playwright, novelist > Oscar Wilde
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We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism, in Fortnightly Review (London, Feb. 1891; repr. 1895).
-- Oscar Wilde, (Oct 16 1856-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist; He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., The Importance of Being Ernest, 1895.