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Oscar Wilde 1908
English
  • 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)

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