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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... strange and beautiful book to have presented him with nothing less than a demand to choose between metaphysics and aesthetic experience. For, reacting against the bodiless Neoplatonism of Shelley and the abstract aesthetic theorizing of ...
... strange and beautiful book to have presented him with nothing less than a demand to choose between metaphysics and aesthetic experience. For, reacting against the bodiless Neoplatonism of Shelley and the abstract aesthetic theorizing of ...
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... these critical writings, Wilde's protagonist Gilbert will say, 'There is no reason why in future years this strange Renaissance should not become almost as mighty in its way as was that new birth of Art that woke many centuries.
... these critical writings, Wilde's protagonist Gilbert will say, 'There is no reason why in future years this strange Renaissance should not become almost as mighty in its way as was that new birth of Art that woke many centuries.
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... strange death in the desolate house amid the sands of the Helder,3 we seem to see him, to know him, almost to hear the low music of his voice. He is a dreamer, as the common phrase goes, and yet he is poetical in this sense, that his ...
... strange death in the desolate house amid the sands of the Helder,3 we seem to see him, to know him, almost to hear the low music of his voice. He is a dreamer, as the common phrase goes, and yet he is poetical in this sense, that his ...
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... strange elephant scalp with gilded tusks. If Denys l'Auxerrois symbolizes the passion of the senses and Sebastian Van Storck the philosophic passion, as they certainly seem to do, though no mere formula or definition can adequately ...
... strange elephant scalp with gilded tusks. If Denys l'Auxerrois symbolizes the passion of the senses and Sebastian Van Storck the philosophic passion, as they certainly seem to do, though no mere formula or definition can adequately ...
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... strange sensuousness of expression, as when he tells us how Denys l'Auxerrois, on his return from a long journey, 'ate flesh for the first time, tearing the hot, red morsels with his delicate fingers in a kind of wild greed', but such ...
... strange sensuousness of expression, as when he tells us how Denys l'Auxerrois, on his return from a long journey, 'ate flesh for the first time, tearing the hot, red morsels with his delicate fingers in a kind of wild greed', but such ...
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