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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... things, my nature does not answer'. To be sure, an intense response to the visible world, and especially an acute delight in colour, would become the universal passport of the nineteenth-century aesthete: Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Pater ...
... things, my nature does not answer'. To be sure, an intense response to the visible world, and especially an acute delight in colour, would become the universal passport of the nineteenth-century aesthete: Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Pater ...
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... things'. 'Surely he who sees in colour no mere delightful quality of natural things but a spirit dwelling in things,' said Wilde of his own position, struggling to answer Pater in the pages of his Oxford commonplace book, 'is in a way a ...
... things'. 'Surely he who sees in colour no mere delightful quality of natural things but a spirit dwelling in things,' said Wilde of his own position, struggling to answer Pater in the pages of his Oxford commonplace book, 'is in a way a ...
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... things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing'. The centrality of Hegelian becoming to Wilde's thought serves to explain why his critical protagonists are so often heard speaking in 'poetic' prose. Nothing has worn less well with ...
... things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing'. The centrality of Hegelian becoming to Wilde's thought serves to explain why his critical protagonists are so often heard speaking in 'poetic' prose. Nothing has worn less well with ...
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... things of life were made lovely; and the hunter and the warrior lay on the couch when they were tired, and, when they were thirsty, drank from the bowl, and never cared to lose the exquisite proportion of the one, or the delightful ...
... things of life were made lovely; and the hunter and the warrior lay on the couch when they were tired, and, when they were thirsty, drank from the bowl, and never cared to lose the exquisite proportion of the one, or the delightful ...
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... things is a grave impertinence to all painters; but Mr Whistler was relentless, and with charming ease, and much grace of manner, explained to the public that the only thing they should cultivate was ugliness, and that on their ...
... things is a grave impertinence to all painters; but Mr Whistler was relentless, and with charming ease, and much grace of manner, explained to the public that the only thing they should cultivate was ugliness, and that on their ...
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