Finlay’s Reviews > Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde > Status Update

The first third covers the Irish myths that Wilde imbibed at 1 Merrion Square, as well as his early encounters with poetry (Whitman, Swinburne, Wordsworth, Keats) and precocious love for French novels. Then moves to his time at Oxford, looking at both formal classical scholarship (Mahaffy et al.) as well as informal aesthetic readings (Plato’s Symposium sticks out, as well as contemporaneous works by his tutors).