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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... and ear physician later given a knighthood in recognition of his services to medicine. Sir William Wilde founded an eye and ear hospital in Dublin, wrote what became the earliest textbooks in the British Isles on aural.
... and ear physician later given a knighthood in recognition of his services to medicine. Sir William Wilde founded an eye and ear hospital in Dublin, wrote what became the earliest textbooks in the British Isles on aural.
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... became famous for a prodigious memory and ability to read at great speed. In what came to be regarded as a sort of parlour trick, he would offer to read a three-volume novel in thirty minutes, mastering both plot and characters in the ...
... became famous for a prodigious memory and ability to read at great speed. In what came to be regarded as a sort of parlour trick, he would offer to read a three-volume novel in thirty minutes, mastering both plot and characters in the ...
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... became intelligible. Wilde's encounter with Aeschylus must thus be viewed as one of his earliest experiences of literature's power to, as the narrator of The Portrait of Mr W. H. will later say, give 'form and substance to what is ...
... became intelligible. Wilde's encounter with Aeschylus must thus be viewed as one of his earliest experiences of literature's power to, as the narrator of The Portrait of Mr W. H. will later say, give 'form and substance to what is ...
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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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... became, Wilde bitterly confesses, 'intellectually degrading to me'. From his prison cell in Reading Gaol, Wilde would remember that 'the first and best of my critical dialogues' – he meant 'The Decay of Lying' – had come to him over a ...
... became, Wilde bitterly confesses, 'intellectually degrading to me'. From his prison cell in Reading Gaol, Wilde would remember that 'the first and best of my critical dialogues' – he meant 'The Decay of Lying' – had come to him over a ...
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