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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... thought had reduced the beauty and poignancy of human life to ghostly paradigms – Pater had insisted that 'we must renounce metaphysics if we would mould our lives to artistic perfection'. Yet Wilde also saw, and it is no small part of ...
... thought had reduced the beauty and poignancy of human life to ghostly paradigms – Pater had insisted that 'we must renounce metaphysics if we would mould our lives to artistic perfection'. Yet Wilde also saw, and it is no small part of ...
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... thought Wilde, is invoked by Aeschylus in the very syllables of her name, with Greek 'Eλέvη, 'Helen', treated throughout as if derived from έλε^v, 'to destroy'. In the same spirit, Wilde would maintain in an unpublished Oxford essay on ...
... thought Wilde, is invoked by Aeschylus in the very syllables of her name, with Greek 'Eλέvη, 'Helen', treated throughout as if derived from έλε^v, 'to destroy'. In the same spirit, Wilde would maintain in an unpublished Oxford essay on ...
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... thought, what he called the 'Oxford temper', by which he did not mean anything resembling the attitude of nil admirari conventionally associated with Oxford men: a manner 'arid, aloof, incurious, unthinking' and 'unthanking', as Rudyard ...
... thought, what he called the 'Oxford temper', by which he did not mean anything resembling the attitude of nil admirari conventionally associated with Oxford men: a manner 'arid, aloof, incurious, unthinking' and 'unthanking', as Rudyard ...
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... thought' upon stock notions and fixed opinions. Echoing Arnold in an unpublished essay written at Oxford in 1877, Wilde approvingly described the Hellenism of the ancient Greeks as 'a one-sided enthusiasm for ideas', a passion for ...
... thought' upon stock notions and fixed opinions. Echoing Arnold in an unpublished essay written at Oxford in 1877, Wilde approvingly described the Hellenism of the ancient Greeks as 'a one-sided enthusiasm for ideas', a passion for ...
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... thought' and 'creating an intellectual atmosphere', that the two notions are not always readily distinguishable in his writing. Only a Hellenism made available as commentary on literature, Arnold thought, could rescue Britain from a ...
... thought' and 'creating an intellectual atmosphere', that the two notions are not always readily distinguishable in his writing. Only a Hellenism made available as commentary on literature, Arnold thought, could rescue Britain from a ...
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