For 10 points, name this poet of "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray.
In one poem, this man wrote, "the stroke of eight is the stroke of Fate that makes a man accursed, and Fate will use a running noose for the best man and the worst." In another work, he wrote, "The nineteenth-century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass." That aforementioned poem by this man was published under the name "C.3.3," referring to the author's room, and was inspired by the hanging of Charles Thomas Woolridge. He declared, "All art is quite useless," in the preface to his only novel, and he observed that "each man kills the thing he loves" in a famous poem. For 10 points, name this poet of "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray.
In one poem, this man wrote, "the stroke of eight is the stroke of Fate that makes a man accursed, and Fate will use a running noose for the best man and the worst."
Oscar Wilde