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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... letters relating to The Picture of Dorian Gray have been taken from Rupert HartDavis's The Letters of Oscar Wilde of 1962. I have silently corrected minor printer's errors throughout. Introduction 'I was a man,' Oscar Wilde famously ...
... letters relating to The Picture of Dorian Gray have been taken from Rupert HartDavis's The Letters of Oscar Wilde of 1962. I have silently corrected minor printer's errors throughout. Introduction 'I was a man,' Oscar Wilde famously ...
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... letter written during the final months of a prison sentence served for committing 'acts of gross indecency with other male persons'. When part of the letter was published in 1905 under the title of De Profundis, Wilde's claim seemed to ...
... letter written during the final months of a prison sentence served for committing 'acts of gross indecency with other male persons'. When part of the letter was published in 1905 under the title of De Profundis, Wilde's claim seemed to ...
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... letter to the Home Secretary from Reading Gaol after he had been totally deprived of books. Literature was for him, he would repeat with a poignant desperation, the mode 'by which, and by which alone, the intellect could feel itself ...
... letter to the Home Secretary from Reading Gaol after he had been totally deprived of books. Literature was for him, he would repeat with a poignant desperation, the mode 'by which, and by which alone, the intellect could feel itself ...
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... – Arnold's suavely amusing attacks upon Philistinism in his lectures, essays, reviews and letters to the editor becoming an important, if only temporary, model for Wilde. Thus the reader of this volume will hear Arnold's.
... – Arnold's suavely amusing attacks upon Philistinism in his lectures, essays, reviews and letters to the editor becoming an important, if only temporary, model for Wilde. Thus the reader of this volume will hear Arnold's.
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... letters, and its criticisms merely reveal the critic without illuminating what he would criticize for us'. The emergence of Wilde as a genuinely original thinker about art and culture may be marked, therefore, from the moment he drops ...
... letters, and its criticisms merely reveal the critic without illuminating what he would criticize for us'. The emergence of Wilde as a genuinely original thinker about art and culture may be marked, therefore, from the moment he drops ...
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