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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... course to prison: first publicly courting Lord Alfred Douglas, the beautiful but forbidden son of the Marquess of Queensberry, then suing Queensberry for libel, at a time when Wilde's own life, with its reckless forays into the ...
... course to prison: first publicly courting Lord Alfred Douglas, the beautiful but forbidden son of the Marquess of Queensberry, then suing Queensberry for libel, at a time when Wilde's own life, with its reckless forays into the ...
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... course of establishing a far more open and competitive system during the university reform movement of the 1850s, Oxford academic liberals had brought about two epochal changes to Literae Humaniores, shifting its curricular bias from ...
... course of establishing a far more open and competitive system during the university reform movement of the 1850s, Oxford academic liberals had brought about two epochal changes to Literae Humaniores, shifting its curricular bias from ...
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... course specifically, and philosophical study more generally, by such Oxford liberals as Jowett and Mark Pattison, Pater and Thomas Hill Green. 'Philosophy serves culture,' Pater had declared in his chapter on Winckelmann, 'not by the ...
... course specifically, and philosophical study more generally, by such Oxford liberals as Jowett and Mark Pattison, Pater and Thomas Hill Green. 'Philosophy serves culture,' Pater had declared in his chapter on Winckelmann, 'not by the ...
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... course, with regard to the value of beautiful surroundings I differ entirely from Mr Whistler. An artist is not an isolated fact, he is the resultant of a certain milieu and a certain entourage, and can no more be born of a nation that ...
... course, with regard to the value of beautiful surroundings I differ entirely from Mr Whistler. An artist is not an isolated fact, he is the resultant of a certain milieu and a certain entourage, and can no more be born of a nation that ...
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... course, that the personality of the player passes away, and with it that pleasure-giving power by virtue of which the arts exist. Yet the artistic method of a great actor survives. It lives on in tradition, and becomes part of the ...
... course, that the personality of the player passes away, and with it that pleasure-giving power by virtue of which the arts exist. Yet the artistic method of a great actor survives. It lives on in tradition, and becomes part of the ...
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