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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... mere words!' Wilde will make Dorian Gray exclaim. 'Was there anything so real as words?' Wilde's early absorption in the Agamemnon would become the type for his experience of literature: reading such a work was not merely an ...
... mere words!' Wilde will make Dorian Gray exclaim. 'Was there anything so real as words?' Wilde's early absorption in the Agamemnon would become the type for his experience of literature: reading such a work was not merely an ...
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... mere 'passmen' – people who shunned the effort of distinction involved in reading for honours, being willing merely to get by. The gift of the Greats curriculum to its successful candidates was, Wilde thought, what he called the 'Oxford ...
... mere 'passmen' – people who shunned the effort of distinction involved in reading for honours, being willing merely to get by. The gift of the Greats curriculum to its successful candidates was, Wilde thought, what he called the 'Oxford ...
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... merely, he should not be allowed to talk of anything but mediums and megilp,12 and on those subjects should be compelled to hold his tongue; it is only when he becomes an artist that the secret laws of artistic creation are revealed to ...
... merely, he should not be allowed to talk of anything but mediums and megilp,12 and on those subjects should be compelled to hold his tongue; it is only when he becomes an artist that the secret laws of artistic creation are revealed to ...
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... merely for its clever satire and amusing jests will it be remembered, but for the pure and perfect beauty of many of its passages – passages delivered with an earnestness which seemed to amaze those who had looked on Mr Whistler as a ...
... merely for its clever satire and amusing jests will it be remembered, but for the pure and perfect beauty of many of its passages – passages delivered with an earnestness which seemed to amaze those who had looked on Mr Whistler as a ...
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... merely, but all the other arts also, be the gainers by a change such as that which I propose; the gainers, I mean, through the increased atmosphere of Beauty by which the artists would be surrounded, and in which they would grow up. For ...
... merely, but all the other arts also, be the gainers by a change such as that which I propose; the gainers, I mean, through the increased atmosphere of Beauty by which the artists would be surrounded, and in which they would grow up. For ...
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