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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... gives us a Wilde not so easily made over in the image of our contemporary concerns. Readers expecting to find in the critical prose of Intentions or The Soul of Man under Socialism pronouncements on consumer capitalism or hints about ...
... gives us a Wilde not so easily made over in the image of our contemporary concerns. Readers expecting to find in the critical prose of Intentions or The Soul of Man under Socialism pronouncements on consumer capitalism or hints about ...
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... give 'form and substance to what is within us'. Mere words, as Dorian Gray will marvel, can 'give a plastic form to formless things', can create inside us 'a new world'. Wilde's sense of literature as a separate and indispensable ...
... give 'form and substance to what is within us'. Mere words, as Dorian Gray will marvel, can 'give a plastic form to formless things', can create inside us 'a new world'. Wilde's sense of literature as a separate and indispensable ...
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... gives me very little'. If we are today likely to see Plato and Darwin as an odd combination of influences, it is only because the late Victorian ethos in which Wilde was speaking has become to us a lost world of thought. Its key figure ...
... gives me very little'. If we are today likely to see Plato and Darwin as an odd combination of influences, it is only because the late Victorian ethos in which Wilde was speaking has become to us a lost world of thought. Its key figure ...
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... 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.
... 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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... gives of the wonderful 'Songe to Ælla', he mars by his corrections the poem's metrical beauty, ruins the rhymes and robs the music of its echo. Nineteenth-century restorations6 have done quite enough harm to English architecture without ...
... gives of the wonderful 'Songe to Ælla', he mars by his corrections the poem's metrical beauty, ruins the rhymes and robs the music of its echo. Nineteenth-century restorations6 have done quite enough harm to English architecture without ...
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