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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... hand, 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 ...
... hand, 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 ...
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... hand just that breaking up of 'stock notions' under the pressure of 'fresh streams of thought' that Arnold had called for. In them too one sees at work the 'dephlegmaticizing' of existence – rousing and startling it into 'a life of ...
... hand just that breaking up of 'stock notions' under the pressure of 'fresh streams of thought' that Arnold had called for. In them too one sees at work the 'dephlegmaticizing' of existence – rousing and startling it into 'a life of ...
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... hand that turned the page, her world would live when hand and page were dust. 'Every day,' Gilbert tells Ernest, 'the swan-like daughter of Leda comes out on the battlements, and looks down at the tide of war.' Is Helen a mere shadow in ...
... hand that turned the page, her world would live when hand and page were dust. 'Every day,' Gilbert tells Ernest, 'the swan-like daughter of Leda comes out on the battlements, and looks down at the tide of war.' Is Helen a mere shadow in ...
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... hand of exquisite English girls strolling by an opal sea in the fantastic dresses of Japan? Has not Tite-street6 been thrilled with the tidings that the models of Chelsea were posing to the master, in peplums, for pastels? 7 Whatever ...
... hand of exquisite English girls strolling by an opal sea in the fantastic dresses of Japan? Has not Tite-street6 been thrilled with the tidings that the models of Chelsea were posing to the master, in peplums, for pastels? 7 Whatever ...
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... hand, has expressed a truth which needed 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 ...
... hand, has expressed a truth which needed 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 ...
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