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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - *Non-fiction, Literary Criticism

Authors: Oscar Wilde In Year : 1908

Book Language: English

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Prologue and Introduction
Dinners and Dishes
A Modern Epic
Shakespeare on Scenery
A Bevy of Poets
Parnassus Versus Philology
Hamlet at the Lyceum
Two New Novels (May 15, 1885)
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 (Sept. 16, 1880)
Ben Jonson
The Poets' Corner--I
A Ride Through Morrocco
The Children of the Poets
New Novels (October 28, 1886)
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 (August 20, 1887)
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
Index of Authors and Books Reviewed

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. (Summary from Introduction by Robert Ross)