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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... effect that comes from those side issues that are suddenly suggested by the central idea in its progress'. What Gilbert means by progress is at the level of individual thought a reflection of the much vaster progress of the Hegelian ...
... effect that comes from those side issues that are suddenly suggested by the central idea in its progress'. What Gilbert means by progress is at the level of individual thought a reflection of the much vaster progress of the Hegelian ...
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... effects, when common things are touched with mystery and transfigured with beauty, when the warehouses become as palaces, and the tall chimneys of the factory seem like campaniles in the silver air. Finally, after making a strong ...
... effects, when common things are touched with mystery and transfigured with beauty, when the warehouses become as palaces, and the tall chimneys of the factory seem like campaniles in the silver air. Finally, after making a strong ...
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... effect, become beautiful, is true; and this, indeed, is the real modernité of art; but these conditions are exactly what we cannot be always sure of, as we stroll down Piccadilly3 in the glaring vulgarity of the noonday, or lounge in ...
... effect, become beautiful, is true; and this, indeed, is the real modernité of art; but these conditions are exactly what we cannot be always sure of, as we stroll down Piccadilly3 in the glaring vulgarity of the noonday, or lounge in ...
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... a style that deliberately aims at perfection of form, that seeks to produce its effect by artistic means and sets before itself an ideal of grave and chastened beauty. 5. [The Actor as Critic] Madame Ristori's1 Etudes et Souvenirs.
... a style that deliberately aims at perfection of form, that seeks to produce its effect by artistic means and sets before itself an ideal of grave and chastened beauty. 5. [The Actor as Critic] Madame Ristori's1 Etudes et Souvenirs.
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