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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... nature does not answer'. To be sure, an intense response to the visible world, and especially an acute delight in colour, would become the universal passport of the nineteenth-century aesthete: Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Pater, William ...
... nature does not answer'. To be sure, an intense response to the visible world, and especially an acute delight in colour, would become the universal passport of the nineteenth-century aesthete: Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Pater, William ...
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... natural history – in a holm-oak tree, simply to bring into his story the haunting assonance of 'holm' and 'oak'. So Wilde, everywhere in his prose and verse, is to be found incessantly plucking the lute strings of alliteration. Yet we ...
... natural history – in a holm-oak tree, simply to bring into his story the haunting assonance of 'holm' and 'oak'. So Wilde, everywhere in his prose and verse, is to be found incessantly plucking the lute strings of alliteration. Yet we ...
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... natural selection. Science and philosophy, no less than morals and art, obeyed a law of rational progress which was itself identical with the constantly unfolding development of pure Idea or Mind. The gravitational pull of this half ...
... natural selection. Science and philosophy, no less than morals and art, obeyed a law of rational progress which was itself identical with the constantly unfolding development of pure Idea or Mind. The gravitational pull of this half ...
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... Nature, and in a few moments convicted her of the Crystal Palace,8 Bank holidays, and a general overcrowding of detail, both in omnibuses and in landscapes, and then, in a passage of singular beauty, not unlike one that occurs in Corot ...
... Nature, and in a few moments convicted her of the Crystal Palace,8 Bank holidays, and a general overcrowding of detail, both in omnibuses and in landscapes, and then, in a passage of singular beauty, not unlike one that occurs in Corot ...
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... natural expression of life's beauty. Nor would painting merely, but all the other arts also, be the gainers by a change such as that which I propose; the gainers, I mean, through the increased atmosphere of Beauty by which the artists ...
... natural expression of life's beauty. Nor would painting merely, but all the other arts also, be the gainers by a change such as that which I propose; the gainers, I mean, through the increased atmosphere of Beauty by which the artists ...
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