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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... , the visible signature of the 'undying beauty of things that fade and die', and therefore part of the mystery of consciousness. When Wilde read Pater's Studies in the History of the Renaissance during his first term at.
... , the visible signature of the 'undying beauty of things that fade and die', and therefore part of the mystery of consciousness. When Wilde read Pater's Studies in the History of the Renaissance during his first term at.
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Oscar Wilde. the History of the Renaissance during his first term at Oxford, he took that strange and beautiful book to have presented him with nothing less than a demand to choose between metaphysics and aesthetic experience. For ...
Oscar Wilde. the History of the Renaissance during his first term at Oxford, he took that strange and beautiful book to have presented him with nothing less than a demand to choose between metaphysics and aesthetic experience. For ...
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... Renaissance would so powerfully move Wilde when he came to read it at Oxford and afterwards. For Pater had seized upon just this same moment of aesthetic and cognitive incandescence as the crucial event in the existence of a wholly ...
... Renaissance would so powerfully move Wilde when he came to read it at Oxford and afterwards. For Pater had seized upon just this same moment of aesthetic and cognitive incandescence as the crucial event in the existence of a wholly ...
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... Renaissance', understood specifically as a rebirth of Greek art and ideas, were invested with politically liberal ... Renaissance in hopes of achieving among the Victorians what the Renaissance had achieved through its own revival of ...
... Renaissance', understood specifically as a rebirth of Greek art and ideas, were invested with politically liberal ... Renaissance in hopes of achieving among the Victorians what the Renaissance had achieved through its own revival of ...
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... 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 him at Oxford, as he was reading ...
... 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 him at Oxford, as he was reading ...
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