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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... London and Paris, originated too in the Greats conception of intellect as 'free play'. When a fellow Greats candidate and friend left Oxford in 1877, Wilde wrote to the young man, complaining that now 'there is no intellectual friction ...
... London and Paris, originated too in the Greats conception of intellect as 'free play'. When a fellow Greats candidate and friend left Oxford in 1877, Wilde wrote to the young man, complaining that now 'there is no intellectual friction ...
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... London the fashionable West End required reforming quite as much as the impoverished East End, and by suggesting that reform was much more a matter of sympathetic, inward becoming than of outward and busily self-important doing. To ...
... London the fashionable West End required reforming quite as much as the impoverished East End, and by suggesting that reform was much more a matter of sympathetic, inward becoming than of outward and busily self-important doing. To ...
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... London, then Goethe's Weimar. The 'renaissance' of Hellenism, Pater insisted, was always taking place – then why not here and now? This was the electrifying question which Wilde understood Arnold, Pater and Symonds all to have posed to ...
... London, then Goethe's Weimar. The 'renaissance' of Hellenism, Pater insisted, was always taking place – then why not here and now? This was the electrifying question which Wilde understood Arnold, Pater and Symonds all to have posed to ...
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... London, from Burlington House to the Grosvenor Gallery,8 without feeling that the professional model is ruining painting, and reducing it to a condition of mere pose and pastiche. Are we not all weary of him, that venerable impostor ...
... London, from Burlington House to the Grosvenor Gallery,8 without feeling that the professional model is ruining painting, and reducing it to a condition of mere pose and pastiche. Are we not all weary of him, that venerable impostor ...
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