The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical ProseSelection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891): 'The Decay of Lying, 'Pen, Pencil, Poison', and 'The Critic as Artist'. |
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... English Texts series. In the meantime, I have taken the texts of Wilde's early reviews, The Soul of Man under Socialism and the four essays of Intentions from Robert Ross's 1908 edition of Wilde's works. The text of the expanded version ...
... English Texts series. In the meantime, I have taken the texts of Wilde's early reviews, The Soul of Man under Socialism and the four essays of Intentions from Robert Ross's 1908 edition of Wilde's works. The text of the expanded version ...
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... as a separate and indispensable reality would expand outwards in every direction from this paradigmatic schoolboy encounter with the Agamemnon, as classical, English, French, German, Italian and American literatures all became living.
... as a separate and indispensable reality would expand outwards in every direction from this paradigmatic schoolboy encounter with the Agamemnon, as classical, English, French, German, Italian and American literatures all became living.
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Oscar Wilde. English, French, German, Italian and American literatures all became living possessions to him. But within his vast reading, he would always seek the same experience of an incandescence at once aesthetic and intellectual ...
Oscar Wilde. English, French, German, Italian and American literatures all became living possessions to him. But within his vast reading, he would always seek the same experience of an incandescence at once aesthetic and intellectual ...
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... English Renaissance of Art' – during his 1882 lecture tour through North America. Later it would impel the work that Wilde, according to his friend Ross, at the end of his life considered his best, his literary criticism. Indeed, in the ...
... English Renaissance of Art' – during his 1882 lecture tour through North America. Later it would impel the work that Wilde, according to his friend Ross, at the end of his life considered his best, his literary criticism. Indeed, in the ...
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... English neo-Hegelianism. Emerging in sudden and emphatic opposition to the dominant British empiricist tradition of Locke and Hume, Bentham and Mill, the Hegelian strain would just as abruptly vanish with the reconquest of British ...
... English neo-Hegelianism. Emerging in sudden and emphatic opposition to the dominant British empiricist tradition of Locke and Hume, Bentham and Mill, the Hegelian strain would just as abruptly vanish with the reconquest of British ...
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