"About which pastime is Oscar Wilde reputed to have said ""The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable""?"
Fox hunting Hunt is such a working class club, founded in a small Welsh mining village, although its membership now is by no means limited to miners, with a more "cosmopolitan" make up. Oscar Wilde, in his play "A Woman of No Importance" (1893), once famously described "the English country gentleman galloping after a fox" as "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable." Even before the time of Wilde, much of the criticism of fox hunting was couched in terms of social class. The argument was that while more "working class" blood sports such as cock fighting and badger baiting were
The Letters of Oscar Wilde addition, Holland asserts (from the introduction (xiii)): Here, Holland is referring to Wilde's legendary conversational skills, which have only been partially preserved in the published letters. The letters give an insight to Oscar Wilde's character, his sense of humor and his great affection and love for many people. The Letters of Oscar Wilde The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde is a book that contains over a thousand pages of letters written by Oscar Wilde. Wilde's letters were first published as The Letters of Oscar Wilde in 1963, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis and published by his publishing firm. Merlin Holland revised