AN UNBIASED VIEW OF OSCAR WILDE POEMS

In 1871, when Wilde was seventeen, his elder fifty percent-sisters Mary and Emily died aged 22 and 24, fatally burned in a dance of their household at Drumacon, Co Cavan. On the list of sisters experienced brushed in opposition to the flames of a fireplace or a candelabra and her gown caught fire; in various variations, the man she was dancing with