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