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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... perfect criticism 'seeks to reveal its own secret and not the secret of another'. Yet this apparent rejection of Arnold is itself Arnoldian, the latest development in a thoroughly Arnoldian 'play of thought', with criticism breaking up ...
... perfect criticism 'seeks to reveal its own secret and not the secret of another'. Yet this apparent rejection of Arnold is itself Arnoldian, the latest development in a thoroughly Arnoldian 'play of thought', with criticism breaking up ...
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... 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 master of persiflage merely, and had not known him, as we do, as a master of painting also ...
... 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 master of persiflage merely, and had not known him, as we do, as a master of painting also ...
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... in the fantastic dresses of Japan? Has not Tite-street6 been thrilled with the tidings that the models of Chelsea were posing to the master, in peplums, for pastels? 7 Whatever comes from Mr Whistler's brush is far too perfect.
... in the fantastic dresses of Japan? Has not Tite-street6 been thrilled with the tidings that the models of Chelsea were posing to the master, in peplums, for pastels? 7 Whatever comes from Mr Whistler's brush is far too perfect.
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Oscar Wilde. Whatever comes from Mr Whistler's brush is far too perfect in loveliness, to stand or fall by any intellectual dogmas on art, even his own: for Beauty is justified by all her children, and cares nothing for explanations; but ...
Oscar Wilde. Whatever comes from Mr Whistler's brush is far too perfect in loveliness, to stand or fall by any intellectual dogmas on art, even his own: for Beauty is justified by all her children, and cares nothing for explanations; but ...
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... perfect artist born? Le milieuse renouvelant, l'artse renouvelle.13 Speaking however from his own passionless pedestal, Mr Whistler in pointing out that the power of the painter is to be found in his power of vision, not in his ...
... perfect artist born? Le milieuse renouvelant, l'artse renouvelle.13 Speaking however from his own passionless pedestal, Mr Whistler in pointing out that the power of the painter is to be found in his power of vision, not in his ...
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