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DRAMATISTS > playwright, novelist > Oscar Wilde
From the point...
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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist, pt. 2 (published in Intentions, 1891).
-- 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.