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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... realize,' Wilde would tell the incurious, thoughtless, thankless young man in De Profundis,' that an artist, and especially such an artist as I am, ... requires for the development of his art the companionship of ideas, and intellectual ...
... realize,' Wilde would tell the incurious, thoughtless, thankless young man in De Profundis,' that an artist, and especially such an artist as I am, ... requires for the development of his art the companionship of ideas, and intellectual ...
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... realize the ideal of an intellectual disinterestedness, separating himself more and more from the transient world of sensation, accident or even affection, till what is finite and relative becomes of no interest to him, and he feels ...
... realize the ideal of an intellectual disinterestedness, separating himself more and more from the transient world of sensation, accident or even affection, till what is finite and relative becomes of no interest to him, and he feels ...
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... realized the sweetness of the music of Racine. As for Mr Birrell's statement that actors have the words of literature for ever on their lips, but none of its truths engraved on their hearts, all that one can say is that, if it be true ...
... realized the sweetness of the music of Racine. As for Mr Birrell's statement that actors have the words of literature for ever on their lips, but none of its truths engraved on their hearts, all that one can say is that, if it be true ...
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