Artist as Critic Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Name: Artist as Critic Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
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ISBN: 9780226897646

ISBN-10: 0226897648

ISBN-13: 9780226897646

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellman

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Although known primarily as the irreverent but dazzlingly witty playwright who penned The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde was also an able and farsighted critic. He was an early advocate of criticism as an independent branch of literature and stressed its vital role in the creative process. Scholars continue to debate many of Wilde's critical positions. Included in Richard Ellmann's impressive collection of Wilde's criticism, The Artist as Critic, is a wide selection of Wilde's book reviews as well as such famous longer works as "The Portrait of Mr. W.H.," "The Soul Man under Socialism," and the four essays which make up Intentions. The Artist as Critic will satisfy any Wilde…

Book details

List price: $46.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 474
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Introduction: The Critic as Artist as Wilde



The Tomb of Keats (1877)


Impressions of America (1883)



Ten O'Clock (1885) The Relation of Dress to Art


A Note in Black and White on



Dinners and Dishes (1885)


[George Saintsbury:] ""Half Hours with the Worst Authors"" (1886)


To Read, or Not to Read (1886)


Balzac in English (1886)


Ben Jonson (1886)


Two Biographies of Sir Philip Sidney (1886)


The Poets and the People (1887)


A New Book on Dickens (1887)