The Complete Non-Fiction Writings (Essays on Art + The Rise Of Historical Criticism + Poems in Prose + The Soul of a Man under Socialism + De Produndis and more) This carefully crafted ebook: «The Complete Non-Fiction Writings (Essays on Art + The Rise Of Historical Criticism + Poems in Prose + The Soul of a Man under Socialism + De Produndis and more)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: The Decay Of Lying Pen, Pencil And Poison – A Study In Green The Critic As Artist The Truth Of Masks The Rise Of Historical Criticism The English Renaissance Of Art House Decoration Art And The Handicraftsman Lecture To Art Students London Models Poems In Prose The Soul Of Man Under Socialism Phrases And Philosophies For The Use Of The Young A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated De Profundis Oscar Wilde's Letter To Robert Browning Personal Impressions Of America The Decorative Arts The House Beautiful The Truth Of Masks: a note on Illusion Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) – An Irish-born English poet, novelist, and playwright. Considered an eccentric, he was the leader of the aesthetic movement that advocated «art for art's sake» and was once imprisoned for two years with hard labor for homosexual practices. His work includes the novel «The Picture of Dorian Gray» (1890) and the plays «Lady Windermere's Fan» (1892), An Ideal Husband (1895) and «The Importance of Being Earnest» (1895).
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Oscar Wilde. The Complete Non-Fiction Writings
The Complete Non-Fiction Writings
Table of Contents
THE DECAY OF LYING
PEN, PENCIL AND POISON — A STUDY IN GREEN
THE CRITIC AS ARTIST
THE TRUTH OF MASKS
THE RISE OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE OF ART
HOUSE DECORATION
ART AND THE HANDICRAFTSMAN
LECTURE TO ART STUDENTS
LONDON MODELS
POEMS IN PROSE
THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM
PHRASES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR THE USE OF THE YOUNG
A FEW MAXIMS FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF THE OVER-EDUCATED
DE PROFUNDIS
OSCAR WILDE’S LETTER TO ROBERT BROWNING
PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA
THE DECORATIVE ARTS
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
THE TRUTH OF MASKS
A NOTE ON ILLUSION
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Oscar Wilde
(Essays on Art + The Rise Of Historical Criticism + Poems in Prose + The Soul of a Man under Socialism + De Produndis and more)
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“It is in working within limits that the master reveals himself,” and the limitation, the very condition of any art is style. However, we need not linger any longer over Shakespeare’s realism. The Tempest is the most perfect of palinodes. All that we desired to point out was, that the magnificent work of the Elizabethan and Jacobean artists contained within itself the seeds of its own dissolution, and that, if it drew some of its strength from using life as rough material, it drew all its weakness from using life as an artistic method. As the inevitable result of this substitution of an imitative for a creative medium, this surrender of an imaginative form, we have the modern English melodrama. The characters in these plays talk on the stage exactly as they would talk off it; they have neither aspirations nor aspirates; they are taken directly from life and reproduce its vulgarity down to the smallest detail; they present the gait, manner, costume and accent of real people; they would pass unnoticed in a third-class railway carriage. And yet how wearisome the plays are! They do not succeed in producing even that impression of reality at which they aim, and which is their only reason for existing. As a method, realism is a complete failure.
