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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... become a book reviewer perennially under deadline. But it is vital to see that beneath the parlour trick lay magnificent powers of intellect and judgement. In 'The Critic as Artist', Wilde's protagonist Gilbert declares that no reviewer ...
... become a book reviewer perennially under deadline. But it is vital to see that beneath the parlour trick lay magnificent powers of intellect and judgement. In 'The Critic as Artist', Wilde's protagonist Gilbert declares that no reviewer ...
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... become the universal passport of the nineteenth-century aesthete: Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Pater, William Morris, Marcel Proust – sooner or later, in varying accents, all of them can be overheard murmuring with Théophile Gautier, 'Je ...
... become the universal passport of the nineteenth-century aesthete: Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Pater, William Morris, Marcel Proust – sooner or later, in varying accents, all of them can be overheard murmuring with Théophile Gautier, 'Je ...
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... become the type for his experience of literature: reading such a work was not merely an accomplishment or a stage in some career of self-culture. To read the Agamemnon was, for Wilde, to enter and apprehend the work as a world, an ...
... become the type for his experience of literature: reading such a work was not merely an accomplishment or a stage in some career of self-culture. To read the Agamemnon was, for Wilde, to enter and apprehend the work as a world, an ...
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... become his bitterest reproach. Wilde had first met the 'Oxford temper' in his attentive reading of Matthew Arnold ... becoming an important, if only temporary, model for Wilde. Thus the reader of this volume will hear Arnold's.
... become his bitterest reproach. Wilde had first met the 'Oxford temper' in his attentive reading of Matthew Arnold ... becoming an important, if only temporary, model for Wilde. Thus the reader of this volume will hear Arnold's.
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... become convinced that the irresistible tide of modern thought was away from conventional religious orthodoxy and towards a more plenary understanding of the mind as a means of perfection no less worthy than the soul. Jowett undertook to ...
... become convinced that the irresistible tide of modern thought was away from conventional religious orthodoxy and towards a more plenary understanding of the mind as a means of perfection no less worthy than the soul. Jowett undertook to ...
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