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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... Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation, confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his society comedies – Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being ...
... Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation, confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his society comedies – Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being ...
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... Picture of Dorian Gray have been taken from Rupert HartDavis's The Letters of Oscar Wilde of 1962. I have silently corrected minor printer's errors throughout. Introduction 'I was a man,' Oscar Wilde famously declared, 'who NOTE ON THE ...
... Picture of Dorian Gray have been taken from Rupert HartDavis's The Letters of Oscar Wilde of 1962. I have silently corrected minor printer's errors throughout. Introduction 'I was a man,' Oscar Wilde famously declared, 'who NOTE ON THE ...
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... Picture of Dorian Gray or his fairy tales and stories find them immediately attractive. This response has been matched by the tendency of modern literary and cultural critics to take Wilde as a spokesman for our own contemporary ...
... Picture of Dorian Gray or his fairy tales and stories find them immediately attractive. This response has been matched by the tendency of modern literary and cultural critics to take Wilde as a spokesman for our own contemporary ...
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... picture to the ghostly or spectral status of an 'aesthetic object'. Just as he had discovered a metaphysics of the unseen world in colour, Wilde would always hear overtones of the metaphysical in the rhythm, sonority and verbal texture ...
... picture to the ghostly or spectral status of an 'aesthetic object'. Just as he had discovered a metaphysics of the unseen world in colour, Wilde would always hear overtones of the metaphysical in the rhythm, sonority and verbal texture ...
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... Picture of Dorian Gray, who 'played with the idea, and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox'. Or Lord Illingworth in A Woman ...
... Picture of Dorian Gray, who 'played with the idea, and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox'. Or Lord Illingworth in A Woman ...
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