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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... century literary biography, Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde (1987). With his distinctive image reproduced on T-shirts and coffee mugs and his witty apothegms repeated everywhere, Wilde now seems more our contemporary than he ever was the ...
... century literary biography, Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde (1987). With his distinctive image reproduced on T-shirts and coffee mugs and his witty apothegms repeated everywhere, Wilde now seems more our contemporary than he ever was the ...
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... century, it may be, will mark the period during which we begin to grasp Wilde's importance as a philosophical spokesman for the autonomy of art. For our current preoccupation with Wilde as a witty and languid poseur tends to obscure the ...
... century, it may be, will mark the period during which we begin to grasp Wilde's importance as a philosophical spokesman for the autonomy of art. For our current preoccupation with Wilde as a witty and languid poseur tends to obscure the ...
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... 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 suis un homme pour quile monde visible existe' ('I ...
... 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 suis un homme pour quile monde visible existe' ('I ...
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... century. 'Words, mere words!' Wilde will make Dorian Gray exclaim. 'Was there anything so real as words?' Wilde's early absorption in the Agamemnon would become the type for his experience of literature: reading such a work was not ...
... century. 'Words, mere words!' Wilde will make Dorian Gray exclaim. 'Was there anything so real as words?' Wilde's early absorption in the Agamemnon would become the type for his experience of literature: reading such a work was not ...
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... century France, it had reappeared in fifteenth-century Italy and Elizabethan England, and still later in eighteenth-century Germany. With each recovery had come nothing less than a transformation of consciousness, begetting in turn a ...
... century France, it had reappeared in fifteenth-century Italy and Elizabethan England, and still later in eighteenth-century Germany. With each recovery had come nothing less than a transformation of consciousness, begetting in turn a ...
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