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Identifier: oscarwildefragme00birn (find matches)
Title: Oscar Wilde, fragments and memories
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Birnbaum, Martin, 1878- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Authors, Irish
Publisher: New York, J. F. Drake, inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ARLY in the nineties anambitious young Americanhad a play produced in Lon-don. After the final cur-tain some rowdies in the pitcoaxed the inexperienced playwright to appearbefore the footlights and proceeded to booand hiss him off as soon as he stepped inview. But the young man was not crushed.They will have to applaud me yet, he ex-claimed, and his subsequent meteoric careerproved that he had fine talents. At thattime, however, there were few in London whowould listen to his verses, stories, and plays,and fewer still to buy them. In a note- Da book of the period we find him paraphras-ing an ancient pessimistic troubadour,— My fate is like the nightingales, That singeth all night long,While still the woodlands mournfully But echo back his song. Sympathetic criticism and encouragementmeant a great deal to him, and these weregiven him by Oscar Wilde. Like all generousspirits, the latter liked to praise, and whenthey met socially at the houses of Londonssmart set the kindly interest of

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