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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... create reality, with language, as Gilbert will say, 'the parent, and not the child, of thought'. For Wilde possessed a sense of Language as autonomous power not to be equalled, perhaps, until Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant wordplay and ...
... create reality, with language, as Gilbert will say, 'the parent, and not the child, of thought'. For Wilde possessed a sense of Language as autonomous power not to be equalled, perhaps, until Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant wordplay and ...
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... creating an intellectual atmosphere', that the two notions are not always readily distinguishable in his writing. Only a Hellenism made available as commentary on literature, Arnold thought, could rescue Britain from a steadily ...
... creating an intellectual atmosphere', that the two notions are not always readily distinguishable in his writing. Only a Hellenism made available as commentary on literature, Arnold thought, could rescue Britain from a steadily ...
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... create, is wise in not busying himself about change in others; yet wisdom is not always the best; there are times when she sinks to the level of common sense; and from the passionate folly of those, and there are many, who desire that ...
... create, is wise in not busying himself about change in others; yet wisdom is not always the best; there are times when she sinks to the level of common sense; and from the passionate folly of those, and there are many, who desire that ...
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