Oscar Fingal O' Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. In his first nine years, he was educated at home, and then he attended highly recognized schools. After high school he attended Trinity University in Ireland. He was an excellent student. He received the highest award, the Berkley gold medal and then earns a scholarship to Magdalen College based in Oxford where he was awarded with the Newdigate prize in 1878 for his poem called "Ravenna".

After he finished his studies, he fell in love with Miss Florence Balcome, who ended breaking his heart to the point that he left Ireland permanently. He went to live in London for a couple of years, where he married a very wealthy woman whose name was Constance. Because of that, he was able to enjoy his life with luxury. He had two sons, Cyril and Vivyan, in 1885 and 1886.

He was imprisoned for gross indecency and was sentenced for two years. He was finally released in 1897 penniless, as his wife had left him and also had died. He moved to Paris for a while and changed his name for Sebastian Melmoth and wrote one of his finest works, "The Ballad of reading Gaol"; later on, he moved to United States. He died November 1990 from cerebral meningitis. His tomb was designed by the famous sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein.

His most outstanding poems were "Apologia" "Ave Maria Gratia Plena", "The Grace of Keats", "The Grave of Shelly", "Her Voice", "Louis Napoleon", "On the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria", and "Under the Balcony".