Oscar Wilde Copyist Charges of Oscar Wilde s plagiarism are certainly not new 1 it has its origins in his contemporaries sharp

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Oscar Wilde Copyist Charges of Oscar Wilde s plagiarism are certainly not new 1 it has its origins in his contemporaries sharp criticism of his first published volume Poems 1881 Even if they did not claim that any of his poetry had been stolen verbatim from the Romantics and Pre Raphaelites whose work he adored commentators grasped that much of his work was highly derivative The Saturday Review was fairly typical of the critical reception The book is not without traces of cleverness but it is marred everywhere by imitation insincerity and bad taste At the same time the Oxford Union famously rejected on similar grounds the very copy of Poems that its secretary had solicited from Wilde at the Oxford Union the undergraduate Oliver Elton later to become a renowned literary historian asserted that Wilde s poems were not by their putative father This question refers to Choose the option that best improves the underlined portion of the sentence A B NO CHANGE they have their origins they have its origins he has its origins

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