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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... secret life of Victorian homosexuality will discover instead Wilde's deep imaginative engagement with great literary works, his long preoccupation with the theory and practice of criticism, and bravura passages bristling with learned ...
... secret life of Victorian homosexuality will discover instead Wilde's deep imaginative engagement with great literary works, his long preoccupation with the theory and practice of criticism, and bravura passages bristling with learned ...
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... 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 the 'fixed ideas' of criticism itself. For ...
... 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 the 'fixed ideas' of criticism itself. For ...
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... secret group of readers. Yet the philosophical reverberations of Wilde's grand and unembarrassed sublimity would have been picked up by any educated reader of Wilde's own generation. The 'dreams and ideas of myriad generations' borne ...
... secret group of readers. Yet the philosophical reverberations of Wilde's grand and unembarrassed sublimity would have been picked up by any educated reader of Wilde's own generation. The 'dreams and ideas of myriad generations' borne ...
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... secret laws of artistic creation are revealed to him. For there are not many arts, but one art merely – poem, picture, and Parthenon, sonnet and statue – all are in their essence the same, and he who knows one, knows all. But the poet ...
... secret laws of artistic creation are revealed to him. For there are not many arts, but one art merely – poem, picture, and Parthenon, sonnet and statue – all are in their essence the same, and he who knows one, knows all. But the poet ...
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