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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... has held Alexander von Humboldt, Rockefeller and Guggenheim fellowships, and is a past fellow of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Oscar Wilde THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM AND SELECTED.
... has held Alexander von Humboldt, Rockefeller and Guggenheim fellowships, and is a past fellow of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Oscar Wilde THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM AND SELECTED.
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... lives to artistic perfection'. Yet Wilde also saw, and it is no small part of his originality to have seen, that no simple or peremptory rejection of metaphysics in favour of sensory experience was possible. For surely the intuition of ...
... lives to artistic perfection'. Yet Wilde also saw, and it is no small part of his originality to have seen, that no simple or peremptory rejection of metaphysics in favour of sensory experience was possible. For surely the intuition of ...
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... live,' says Gilbert in 'The Critic as Artist', 'and that by altering the name of the sphere of his speculation we shall find a new philosophy.' Gilbert's tentativeness is as significant as the thought to which he gives expression, for ...
... live,' says Gilbert in 'The Critic as Artist', 'and that by altering the name of the sphere of his speculation we shall find a new philosophy.' Gilbert's tentativeness is as significant as the thought to which he gives expression, for ...
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... 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 a song? No: she is real. The world will ...
... 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 a song? No: she is real. The world will ...
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... lives in verifying the birthplaces of nobodies, and estimate the value of a work of art by its date or its decay; at the art critics who always treat a picture as if it were a novel, and try and find out the plot; at dilettanti in ...
... lives in verifying the birthplaces of nobodies, and estimate the value of a work of art by its date or its decay; at the art critics who always treat a picture as if it were a novel, and try and find out the plot; at dilettanti in ...
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