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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... once grandiose and pathetic – symptomatic of the manic egotism that had seemingly driven Wilde, then a brilliantly successful playwright, author and wit, on his mad course to prison: first publicly courting Lord Alfred Douglas, the ...
... once grandiose and pathetic – symptomatic of the manic egotism that had seemingly driven Wilde, then a brilliantly successful playwright, author and wit, on his mad course to prison: first publicly courting Lord Alfred Douglas, the ...
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... Once there, as Richard Ellmann tells us, Wilde began to overtake Willie, who was two years older and until then considered to be the cleverer boy. Oscar became famous for a prodigious memory and ability to read at great speed. In what ...
... Once there, as Richard Ellmann tells us, Wilde began to overtake Willie, who was two years older and until then considered to be the cleverer boy. Oscar became famous for a prodigious memory and ability to read at great speed. In what ...
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... once aesthetic and intellectual. Here is the reason, one suspects, that Pater's Renaissance would so powerfully move Wilde when he came to read it at Oxford and afterwards. For Pater had seized upon just this same moment of aesthetic ...
... once aesthetic and intellectual. Here is the reason, one suspects, that Pater's Renaissance would so powerfully move Wilde when he came to read it at Oxford and afterwards. For Pater had seized upon just this same moment of aesthetic ...
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... once calls the 'wonderful literary form of the dialogue'. The point of dialogic form for Wilde is that it alone is able to embody the mysterious truth that genuine thinking inescapably involves experiencing oneself, in Paul Ricoeur's ...
... once calls the 'wonderful literary form of the dialogue'. The point of dialogic form for Wilde is that it alone is able to embody the mysterious truth that genuine thinking inescapably involves experiencing oneself, in Paul Ricoeur's ...
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... once made a remark in the early 1890s to André Gide in Paris, a generalization he now saw was 'as profound as it was novel'. It was this: that there was nothing Plato had ever said about metaphysics that 'could not be transferred ...
... once made a remark in the early 1890s to André Gide in Paris, a generalization he now saw was 'as profound as it was novel'. It was this: that there was nothing Plato had ever said about metaphysics that 'could not be transferred ...
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