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What kind of writer was Oscar Wilde?

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Influenced by the aesthetic teachings of Walter Pater and John Ruskin , Wilde became the center of a group glorifying beauty for itself alone, and he was famously satirized (with other exponents of "art for art's sake" ) in Punch and in Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Patience.

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