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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... writing for periodicals. He published a largely unsuccessful volume of poems in 1881 and in the next year undertook a lecture tour of the United States in order to promote the D'Oyly Carte production of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic ...
... writing for periodicals. He published a largely unsuccessful volume of poems in 1881 and in the next year undertook a lecture tour of the United States in order to promote the D'Oyly Carte production of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic ...
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... written a number of books about Victorian literature in the 1890s, including Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (1986), Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford (1994) and The Vulgarization of Art: The ...
... written a number of books about Victorian literature in the 1890s, including Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (1986), Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford (1994) and The Vulgarization of Art: The ...
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... written during the final months of a prison sentence served for committing 'acts of gross indecency with other male persons'. When part of the letter was published in 1905 under the title of De Profundis, Wilde's claim seemed to many ...
... written during the final months of a prison sentence served for committing 'acts of gross indecency with other male persons'. When part of the letter was published in 1905 under the title of De Profundis, Wilde's claim seemed to many ...
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... writing about colour. For colour had always entranced Wilde. At thirteen, he was already wearing what he contentedly described as 'quite scarlet' shirts. From boyhood on, he would declare in De Profundis, there had not been 'a single ...
... writing about colour. For colour had always entranced Wilde. At thirteen, he was already wearing what he contentedly described as 'quite scarlet' shirts. From boyhood on, he would declare in De Profundis, there had not been 'a single ...
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... Writing to congratulate Rennell Rodd on winning a second in Literae Humaniores in the December of 1880, Wilde declared, 'Greats is the only fine school at Oxford, the only sphere of thought where one can be, simultaneously, brilliant ...
... Writing to congratulate Rennell Rodd on winning a second in Literae Humaniores in the December of 1880, Wilde declared, 'Greats is the only fine school at Oxford, the only sphere of thought where one can be, simultaneously, brilliant ...
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