Stuart Pratt Sherman (1881-1926) was an American literary critic, educator and journalist, known for having been an advocate of the "Nativist" movement in American literature, which defended traditional modes of American literature against Modernism.From Sherman’s fundamental literary collection Critical Woodcuts, published in New York in 1926, we have drawn the study Oscar Wilde. A dandy of letters and acquainted with grief, which today we propose to modern readers. It’s a short essay dedicated to the great Irish poet, writer and playwright, best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.