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'. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 48
Page
... theory and practice of criticism, and bravura passages bristling with learned references to artists and artworks, many of them wholly unfamiliar to modern readers. Readers who turn to The Portrait of Mr W. H. hoping to see Wilde wholly ...
... theory and practice of criticism, and bravura passages bristling with learned references to artists and artworks, many of them wholly unfamiliar to modern readers. Readers who turn to The Portrait of Mr W. H. hoping to see Wilde wholly ...
Page
... theory would constantly strive to acknowledge the metaphysical essence of works of art while at the same time refusing to reduce any given novel or poem or picture to the ghostly or spectral status of an 'aesthetic object'. Just as he ...
... theory would constantly strive to acknowledge the metaphysical essence of works of art while at the same time refusing to reduce any given novel or poem or picture to the ghostly or spectral status of an 'aesthetic object'. Just as he ...
Page
... theory of evolution in terms of Hegel's account of the evolution of Geist or pure Mind. As Smith and Helfand have also demonstrated, Wilde assiduously studied Wallace's book The Logic of Hegel (1873), consisting of a translation of the ...
... theory of evolution in terms of Hegel's account of the evolution of Geist or pure Mind. As Smith and Helfand have also demonstrated, Wilde assiduously studied Wallace's book The Logic of Hegel (1873), consisting of a translation of the ...
Page
... theory from the first. He recalled having once made a remark in the early 1890s to André Gide in Paris, a generalization he now saw was 'as profound as it was novel'. It was this: that there was nothing Plato had ever said about ...
... theory from the first. He recalled having once made a remark in the early 1890s to André Gide in Paris, a generalization he now saw was 'as profound as it was novel'. It was this: that there was nothing Plato had ever said about ...
Page
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actor aesthetic appearance artist beauty became become believe called century character colour complete course create critic Cyril death delightful dress effect Elizabethan England English entirely ERNEST essay existence expression eyes fact fancy feel French GILBERT give Greek hand idea imaginative importance Individualism influence intellectual interest Italy later less letter literary literature live London look Lord matter means merely mode moral Nature never novel once Oxford painter painting pass passion perfect personality philosopher picture play pleasure poem poet poetry present produced published realize Renaissance secret seems sense Shakespeare shows simply Sonnets soul spirit stage story strange style suggested tells theory things thought true truth whole Wilde Wilde’s Willie Hughes wonderful writing written young