He started writing at an early age and soon became a [?] public figure. But until his first expression of homosexual feelings in 1886, Oscar Wilde's writings were fairly second-rate, [?] or derivative. However, his sexual [?] seemed to be a [?] in his life: his productivity [?] and the quality of his works improved. The [?] he felt about his homosexuality and his [?] of his wife Constance, may have [?] his [?] to write on the themes of [?], crime and suffering.