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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... literary biography, Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde (1987). With his distinctive image reproduced on T-shirts and coffee mugs and his witty apothegms repeated everywhere, Wilde now seems more our contemporary than he ever was the ...
... literary biography, Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde (1987). With his distinctive image reproduced on T-shirts and coffee mugs and his witty apothegms repeated everywhere, Wilde now seems more our contemporary than he ever was the ...
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... literary works, his long preoccupation with the theory and practice of criticism, and bravura passages bristling with learned references to artists and artworks, many of them wholly unfamiliar to modern readers. Readers who turn to The ...
... literary works, his long preoccupation with the theory and practice of criticism, and bravura passages bristling with learned references to artists and artworks, many of them wholly unfamiliar to modern readers. Readers who turn to The ...
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... literary or imaginative greatness. For Helen's fatal beauty, thought Wilde, is invoked by Aeschylus in the very syllables of her name, with Greek 'Eλέvη, 'Helen', treated throughout as if derived from έλε^v, 'to destroy'. In the same ...
... literary or imaginative greatness. For Helen's fatal beauty, thought Wilde, is invoked by Aeschylus in the very syllables of her name, with Greek 'Eλέvη, 'Helen', treated throughout as if derived from έλε^v, 'to destroy'. In the same ...
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... to Wilde's development as a critic was Arnold's stress on literary criticism as the chosen medium of what he called Hellenism, with Hellenism always being the best hope for Victorian civilization. Indeed, so closely does Arnold.
... to Wilde's development as a critic was Arnold's stress on literary criticism as the chosen medium of what he called Hellenism, with Hellenism always being the best hope for Victorian civilization. Indeed, so closely does Arnold.
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... literary criticism. Indeed, in the most brilliant of these critical writings, Wilde's protagonist Gilbert will say, 'There is no reason why in future years this strange Renaissance should not become almost as mighty in its way as was ...
... literary criticism. Indeed, in the most brilliant of these critical writings, Wilde's protagonist Gilbert will say, 'There is no reason why in future years this strange Renaissance should not become almost as mighty in its way as was ...
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