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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... ideas, the reader will find him to be absorbed in issues we now tend to think of as remote from contemporary concerns – beauty, aesthetic form, the contemplative life, the moral imperatives underlying the slogan of Art.
... ideas, the reader will find him to be absorbed in issues we now tend to think of as remote from contemporary concerns – beauty, aesthetic form, the contemplative life, the moral imperatives underlying the slogan of Art.
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... ideas, to show truth and falsehood as 'merely forms of intellectual existence', to treat the universe 'as if'. Writing to congratulate Rennell Rodd on winning a second in Literae Humaniores in the December of 1880, Wilde declared ...
... ideas, to show truth and falsehood as 'merely forms of intellectual existence', to treat the universe 'as if'. Writing to congratulate Rennell Rodd on winning a second in Literae Humaniores in the December of 1880, Wilde declared ...
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... idea, and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it ... ideas meant not only books but talk. His extraordinary powers as a conversationalist, which were later to command the ...
... idea, and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it ... ideas meant not only books but talk. His extraordinary powers as a conversationalist, which were later to command the ...
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... ideas as immortal offspring begotten of a spiritual intercourse – or, as Wilde glossed this passage in his commonplace ... idea, title, treatment, mode, everything'. This vivid evening he would contrast with the food- and drink-sodden ...
... ideas as immortal offspring begotten of a spiritual intercourse – or, as Wilde glossed this passage in his commonplace ... idea, title, treatment, mode, everything'. This vivid evening he would contrast with the food- and drink-sodden ...
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... ideas, and intellectual atmosphere.' It would become his bitterest reproach. Wilde had first met the 'Oxford temper' in his attentive reading of Matthew Arnold. For Arnold's notions of 'Hellenism' and 'criticism' stressed the importance ...
... ideas, and intellectual atmosphere.' It would become his bitterest reproach. Wilde had first met the 'Oxford temper' in his attentive reading of Matthew Arnold. For Arnold's notions of 'Hellenism' and 'criticism' stressed the importance ...
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