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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... simply to bring into his story the haunting assonance of 'holm' and 'oak'. So Wilde, everywhere in his prose and verse, is to be found incessantly plucking the lute strings of alliteration. Yet we penetrate to the source of.
... simply to bring into his story the haunting assonance of 'holm' and 'oak'. So Wilde, everywhere in his prose and verse, is to be found incessantly plucking the lute strings of alliteration. Yet we penetrate to the source of.
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... simply imaginative realizations of this principle, as with Lord Henry Wotton in The 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 ...
... simply imaginative realizations of this principle, as with Lord Henry Wotton in The 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 ...
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... simply and grandly called 'ideas'. Hellenism, as Arnold defined it, was a 'spontaneity of consciousness', a 'play of thought' upon stock notions and fixed opinions. Echoing Arnold in an unpublished essay written at Oxford in 1877, Wilde ...
... simply and grandly called 'ideas'. Hellenism, as Arnold defined it, was a 'spontaneity of consciousness', a 'play of thought' upon stock notions and fixed opinions. Echoing Arnold in an unpublished essay written at Oxford in 1877, Wilde ...
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... simply a record of the mood of a man of letters, and its criticisms merely reveal the critic without illuminating what he would criticize for us'. The emergence of Wilde as a genuinely original thinker about art and culture may be ...
... simply a record of the mood of a man of letters, and its criticisms merely reveal the critic without illuminating what he would criticize for us'. The emergence of Wilde as a genuinely original thinker about art and culture may be ...
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... simply not credible, being metaphysically grounded in nothing more persuasive than 'facts'. During Wilde's tour of America, similarly, travelling through the wild Dakota territory, he would report that the red-shirted and yellow-bearded ...
... simply not credible, being metaphysically grounded in nothing more persuasive than 'facts'. During Wilde's tour of America, similarly, travelling through the wild Dakota territory, he would report that the red-shirted and yellow-bearded ...
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