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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... 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.
... 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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... Italian Renaissance in hopes of achieving among the Victorians what the Renaissance had achieved through its own revival of ancient Greece. The object was what Pater usually called 'liberty of the intellect' and 'liberty of the heart ...
... Italian Renaissance in hopes of achieving among the Victorians what the Renaissance had achieved through its own revival of ancient Greece. The object was what Pater usually called 'liberty of the intellect' and 'liberty of the heart ...
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... Italy and Elizabethan England, and still later in eighteenth-century Germany. With each recovery had come nothing less than a transformation of consciousness, begetting in turn a cultural revolution: first Abelard's Paris, then Pico ...
... Italy and Elizabethan England, and still later in eighteenth-century Germany. With each recovery had come nothing less than a transformation of consciousness, begetting in turn a cultural revolution: first Abelard's Paris, then Pico ...
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... Italy.' The intellectual ferment generated by Oxford Hellenism may be glimpsed in all its vitality in two notebooks Wilde kept while at Oxford – a commonplace book he seems to have used to prepare for Greats and a second notebook he ...
... Italy.' The intellectual ferment generated by Oxford Hellenism may be glimpsed in all its vitality in two notebooks Wilde kept while at Oxford – a commonplace book he seems to have used to prepare for Greats and a second notebook he ...
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