was expected to set new standards ofdesign.[51]No.16,Tite Street was duly renovated in seven months at considerable expense.Thecouple had two sons,Cyril(1885)and Vyvyan (1886).Wilde was the sole literary signatory of George Bernard Shaw's petition for a pardon ofthe anarchists arrested(and later executed)after the Haymarket massacre in Chicago in 1886.[52] Robert Ross hadread Wilde's poems before they met,and he was unrestrained by the Victorian prohibition against homosexuality. even to the extent ofestranginghimselffrom his family.A precocious seventeen year old,by Richard Ellmann'saccount,he was".so youngand yet so knowing,was determined to seduce Wilde".[53]Wilde,who had long alluded to Greek love,and- though an adoring father-was put offby the carnality ofhis wife's second pregnancy,succumbed to Ross in Oxford in 1886.[54 II.Prose writing:1886-91 Journalism and editorship:1886-89 Criticism over artistic matters in the Pall Mall Gazette provoked a letter in self-defence,and soon Wilde was a contributor to that 10 and other journals duringthe years 1885-87.He enjoyedwas expected to set new standards of design.[51]No. 16, Tite Street was duly renovated in seven months at considerable expense. The couple had two sons, Cyril(1885) and Vyvyan (1886). Wilde was the sole literary signatory of George Bernard Shaw's petition for a pardon of the anarchists arrested (and later executed) after the Haymarket massacre in Chicago in 1886.[52] Robert Ross had read Wilde's poems before they met, and he was unrestrained by the Victorian prohibition against homosexuality, even to the extent of estranging himself from his family. A precocious seventeen year old, by Richard Ellmann's account, he was ".so young and yet so knowing, was determined to seduce Wilde".[53]Wilde, who had long alluded to Greek love, and – though an adoring father – was put off by the carnality of his wife's second pregnancy, succumbed to Ross in Oxford in 1886.[54] II. Prose writing: 1886–91 Journalism and editorship: 1886–89 Criticism over artistic matters in the Pall Mall Gazette provoked a letter in self-defence, and soon Wilde was a contributor to that and other journals during the years 1885–87. He enjoyed 10’