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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... present to him as the touch of ice or fire. In one of his later fairy tales, he would thus locate the nest of the nightingale – against all natural history – in a holm-oak tree, simply to bring into his story the haunting assonance of ...
... present to him as the touch of ice or fire. In one of his later fairy tales, he would thus locate the nest of the nightingale – against all natural history – in a holm-oak tree, simply to bring into his story the haunting assonance of ...
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... present Plato's works to Oxford undergraduates as the 'greatest uninspired writings' because, first of all, Plato portrayed through Socrates an archetypal account of what mental illumination could mean to human life, and secondly ...
... present Plato's works to Oxford undergraduates as the 'greatest uninspired writings' because, first of all, Plato portrayed through Socrates an archetypal account of what mental illumination could mean to human life, and secondly ...
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... present. First erupting in twelfth-century France, it had reappeared in fifteenth-century Italy and Elizabethan England, and still later in eighteenth-century Germany. With each recovery had come nothing less than a transformation of ...
... present. First erupting in twelfth-century France, it had reappeared in fifteenth-century Italy and Elizabethan England, and still later in eighteenth-century Germany. With each recovery had come nothing less than a transformation of ...
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... present volume will hear Wilde declaring in a review of Pater's Appreciations that the 'legacies of heredity may make us alter our views of moral responsibility, but they cannot but intensify our sense of the value of Criticism; for the ...
... present volume will hear Wilde declaring in a review of Pater's Appreciations that the 'legacies of heredity may make us alter our views of moral responsibility, but they cannot but intensify our sense of the value of Criticism; for the ...
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... artistic method of a great actor survives. It lives on in tradition, and becomes part of the science of a school. It has all the intellectual life of a principle. In England, at the present moment, the influence of [The Actor as Critic]
... artistic method of a great actor survives. It lives on in tradition, and becomes part of the science of a school. It has all the intellectual life of a principle. In England, at the present moment, the influence of [The Actor as Critic]
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