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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... he gives expression, for in it we hear the awareness of the late-nineteenth-century Hegelian that the evolution of Geist must ultimately remain a mystery. Wilde himself seems to have understood his own greatest innovation in.
... he gives expression, for in it we hear the awareness of the late-nineteenth-century Hegelian that the evolution of Geist must ultimately remain a mystery. Wilde himself seems to have understood his own greatest innovation in.
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... so, were our national attire delightful in colour, and in construction simple and sincere; were dress the expression of the loveliness that it shields, and of the swiftness and motion that it does not impede; did its.
... so, were our national attire delightful in colour, and in construction simple and sincere; were dress the expression of the loveliness that it shields, and of the swiftness and motion that it does not impede; did its.
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... expression of life's beauty. Nor would painting merely, but all the other arts also, be the gainers by a change such as that which I propose; the gainers, I mean, through the increased atmosphere of Beauty by which the artists would be ...
... expression of life's beauty. Nor would painting merely, but all the other arts also, be the gainers by a change such as that which I propose; the gainers, I mean, through the increased atmosphere of Beauty by which the artists would be ...
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... expression, and which, coming from the lord of form and colour, cannot fail to have its influence. His lecture, the Apocrypha14 though it be for the people, yet remains from this time as the Bible for the painter, the masterpiece of ...
... expression, and which, coming from the lord of form and colour, cannot fail to have its influence. His lecture, the Apocrypha14 though it be for the people, yet remains from this time as the Bible for the painter, the masterpiece of ...
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... expression and, preferring the affectation of nature to the affectation of art, he thinks nothing of calling other people 'Laura Bridgmans',18 'Jackasses' and the like. This, we think, is to be regretted, especially in a writer so ...
... expression and, preferring the affectation of nature to the affectation of art, he thinks nothing of calling other people 'Laura Bridgmans',18 'Jackasses' and the like. This, we think, is to be regretted, especially in a writer so ...
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