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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... delight in colour, would 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 ...
... delight in colour, would 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 ...
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... delightful quality of natural things but a spirit dwelling in things,' said Wilde of his own position, struggling to answer Pater in the pages of his Oxford commonplace book, 'is in a way a metaphysician.' Metaphysics would somehow have ...
... delightful quality of natural things but a spirit dwelling in things,' said Wilde of his own position, struggling to answer Pater in the pages of his Oxford commonplace book, 'is in a way a metaphysician.' Metaphysics would somehow have ...
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... delightful ornament of the other; and this attitude of the primitive anthropophagous3 Philistine formed the text of the lecture, and was the attitude which Mr Whistler entreated his audience to adopt towards art. Remembering, no doubt ...
... delightful ornament of the other; and this attitude of the primitive anthropophagous3 Philistine formed the text of the lecture, and was the attitude which Mr Whistler entreated his audience to adopt towards art. Remembering, no doubt ...
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... delightful; he stood there, a miniature Mephistopheles5 mocking the majority! He was like a brilliant surgeon lecturing to a class composed of subjects destined ultimately for dissection, and solemnly assuring them how valuable to ...
... delightful; he stood there, a miniature Mephistopheles5 mocking the majority! He was like a brilliant surgeon lecturing to a class composed of subjects destined ultimately for dissection, and solemnly assuring them how valuable to ...
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... delightful. But between the attitude of the painter towards the public, and the attitude of a people towards art, there is a wide difference. That, under certain conditions of light and shade, what Mr Whistler's Ten o'Clock The Relation ...
... delightful. But between the attitude of the painter towards the public, and the attitude of a people towards art, there is a wide difference. That, under certain conditions of light and shade, what Mr Whistler's Ten o'Clock The Relation ...
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