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Wilde Oscar. Reviews

INTRODUCTION

DINNERS AND DISHES

A MODERN EPIC

SHAKESPEARE ON SCENERY

A BEVY OF POETS

PARNASSUS VERSUS PHILOLOGY

HAMLET AT THE LYCEUM

TWO NEW NOVELS

HENRY THE FOURTH AT OXFORD

MODERN GREEK POETRY

OLIVIA AT THE LYCEUM

AS YOU LIKE IT AT COOMBE HOUSE

A HANDBOOK TO MARRIAGE

HALF-HOURS WITH THE WORST AUTHORS

ONE OF MR. CONWAY’S REMAINDERS

TO READ OR NOT TO READ

TWELFTH NIGHT AT OXFORD

THE LETTERS OF A GREAT WOMAN

NEWS FROM PARNASSUS

SOME NOVELS

A LITERARY PILGRIM

BÉRANGER IN ENGLAND

THE POETRY OF THE PEOPLE

THE CENCI

HELENA IN TROAS

PLEASING AND PRATTLING

BALZAC IN ENGLISH

TWO NEW NOVELS

BEN JONSON

THE POETS’ CORNER – I

A RIDE THROUGH MOROCCO

THE CHILDREN OF THE POETS

NEW NOVELS

A POLITICIAN’S POETRY

MR. SYMONDS’ HISTORY OF THE RENAISSANCE

A ‘JOLLY’ ART CRITIC

A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH LITERATURE

COMMON-SENSE IN ART

MINER AND MINOR POETS

A NEW CALENDAR

THE POETS’ CORNER – II

GREAT WRITERS BY LITTLE MEN

A NEW BOOK ON DICKENS

OUR BOOK-SHELF

A CHEAP EDITION OF A GREAT MAN

MR. MORRIS’S ODYSSEY

A BATCH OF NOVELS

SOME NOVELS

THE POETS’ CORNER – III

MR. PATER’S IMAGINARY PORTRAITS

A GOOD HISTORICAL NOVEL

NEW NOVELS

TWO BIOGRAPHIES OF KEATS

A SCOTCHMAN ON SCOTTISH POETRY

LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES – I

MR. MAHAFFY’S NEW BOOK

MR. MORRIS’S COMPLETION OF THE ODYSSEY

SIR CHARLES BOWEN’S VIRGIL

LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES – II

ARISTOTLE AT AFTERNOON TEA

EARLY CHRISTIAN ART IN IRELAND

LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES – III

THE POETS’ CORNER – IV

LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES – IV

THE POETS’ CORNER – V

VENUS OR VICTORY

LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES – V

THE POETS’ CORNER – VI

M. CARO ON GEORGE SAND

THE POETS’ CORNER – VII

A FASCINATING BOOK

THE POETS’ CORNER – VIII

A NOTE ON SOME MODERN POETS

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD’S LAST VOLUME

AUSTRALIAN POETS

SOME LITERARY NOTES – I

POETRY AND PRISON

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WALT WHITMAN

THE NEW PRESIDENT

SOME LITERARY NOTES – II

ONE OF THE BIBLES OF THE WORLD

POETICAL SOCIALISTS

MR. BRANDER MATTHEWS’ ESSAYS

SOME LITERARY NOTES – III

MR. WILLIAM MORRIS’S LAST BOOK

ADAM LINDSAY GORDON

THE POETS’ CORNER – IX

SOME LITERARY NOTES – IV

MR. FROUDE’S BLUE-BOOK

SOME LITERARY NOTES – V

OUIDA’S NEW NOVEL

SOME LITERARY NOTES – VI

A THOUGHT-READER’S NOVEL

THE POETS’ CORNER – X

MR. SWINBURNE’S LAST VOLUME

THREE NEW POETS

A CHINESE SAGE

MR. PATER’S LAST VOLUME

PRIMAVERA

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The editor of writings by any author not long deceased is censured sooner or later for his errors of omission or commission. I have decided to err on the side of commission and to include in the uniform edition of Wilde’s works everything that could be identified as genuine. Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this volume will prove of unusual interest; some of the reviews are curiously prophetic; some are, of course, biassed by prejudice hostile or friendly; others are conceived in the author’s wittiest and happiest vein; only a few are colourless. And if, according to Lord Beaconsfield, the verdict of a continental nation may be regarded as that of posterity, Wilde is a much greater force in our literature than even friendly contemporaries ever supposed he would become.

It should be remembered, however, that at the time when most of these reviews were written Wilde had published scarcely any of the works by which his name has become famous in Europe, though the protagonist of the æsthetic movement was a well-known figure in Paris and London. Later he was recognised – it would be truer to say he was ignored – as a young man who had never fulfilled the high promise of a distinguished university career although his volume of Poems had reached its fifth edition, an unusual event in those days. He had alienated a great many of his Oxford contemporaries by his extravagant manner of dress and his methods of courting publicity. The great men of the previous generation, Wilde’s intellectual peers, with whom he was in artistic sympathy, looked on him askance. Ruskin was disappointed with his former pupil, and Pater did not hesitate to express disapprobation to private friends; while he accepted incense from a disciple, he distrusted the thurifer.

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(1) Echoes of Memory. By Atherton Furlong. (Field and Tuer.)

(2) Sagittulæ. By E. W. Bowling. (Longmans, Green and Co.)

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