Oscar Wilde, Art and Morality E-Book

Mason

• Herausgeber: Mason
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

To the Editor of the St. James's Gazette. Sir,—I have read your criticism of my story, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," and I need hardly say that I do not propose to discuss its merits and demerits, its personalities or its lack of personality. England is a free country, and ordinary English criticism is perfectly free and easy. Besides, I must admit that, either from temperament or taste, or from both, I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticised from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate; and it is to the confusion between the two that we owe the appearance of Mrs. Grundy, that amusing old lady who represents the only original form of humour that the middle classes of this country have been able to produce.

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Oscar Wilde, Art and Morality

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Table of contents

ART AND MORALITY

A STUDY IN PUPPYDOM.

MR. WILDE'S BAD CASE.

MR. OSCAR WILDE AGAIN.

MR. OSCAR WILDE'S DEFENCE.

LETTER FROM "A LONDON EDITOR."

MR. OSCAR WILDE'S DEFENCE.

"THE LAST WORD."

"THE DAILY CHRONICLE" ON "DORIAN GRAY."

OSCAR WILDE'S REPLY.

"THE SCOTS OBSERVER'S" REVIEW.

OSCAR WILDE'S REPLIES.

PROFUSE AND PERFERVID.

"THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY."

PUNCH on "DORIAN GRAY."

OUR BOOKING OFFICE.

A REVULSION FROM REALISM.

THE ROMANCE OF THE IMPOSSIBLE.

WALTER PATER ON "DORIAN GRAY."

THE MORALITY OF "DORIAN GRAY."

MR. ROBERT BUCHANAN ON PAGAN VICIOUSNESS.

COMPARATIVE TABLE OF CHAPTERS IN THE FIRST TWO EDITIONS OF 'THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY'.

PASSAGES WHICH APPEAR IN THE 1890 EDITION ONLY.

On the whole, an artist in England gains something by being attacked. His individuality is intensified. He becomes more completely himself. Of course, the attacks are very gross, very impertinent, and very contemptible. But then no artist expects grace from the vulgar mind, or style from the suburban intellect.

ART AND MORALITY

"Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult."These were the words of Walter Pater to Oscar Wilde on the occasion of their first meeting during the latter's undergraduate days at Oxford.[1] Those were "days of lyrical ardours and of studious sonnet-writing," wrote Wilde, in reviewing one of Pater's books some years later,[2] "days when one loved the exquisite intricacy and musical repetitions of the ballade, and the vilanelle with its linked long-drawn echoes and its curious completeness; days when one solemnly sought to discover the proper temper in which a triolet should be written; delightful days, in which, I am glad to say, there was far more rhyme than reason."