четверг, 26 сентября 2013
An important influence on Wilde during his three years (1871-74) at Trinity College, Dublin, the Rev. Mahaffy, Professor of Ancient History and later Provost, was Wilde's tutor from the beginning. During his first two years, Wilde excelled in classics more impressively than Mahaffy had done during his student years there by winning two of the highest honours available: a Foundation Scholarship and the Berkeley gold medal for his achievement in Greek. Mahaffy is said to have urged Wilde, with obvious facetiousness, to leave Trinity College: "Go to Oxford, my dear Oscar: we are all much too clever for you over here". Wilde departed with Mahaffy's good will: in the preface to the first edition of Mahaffy's Social Life in Greece (1874), which contained a frank discussion of Greek homosexuality, the author thanked "Mr. Oscar Wilde of Magdalen College, Oxford" for "having made improvements and corrections all through the book".
@музыка:
Arctic Monkeys - 505
@настроение:
sleepy.
@темы:
Я никогда не поступлю в Гарвард... (с),
All I can do is be me, whoever that is,
И смутился дьявол, и увидел, как ужасно добро (с),
Oscar Wilde