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Oscar Wilde.
Title:
Oscar Wilde.
Author:
Beckson, Karl.
ISBN:
9780203197196
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (454 pages)
Series:
The Critical Heritage Series
Contents:
BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I 1881-8: POEMS, VERA -- OR THE NIHILISTS, and THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES -- II 1890 -1: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, THE DUCHESS OF PADUA, INTENTIONS, LORD ARTHUR SAVILE 's CRIME AND OTHER STORIES, … -- III 1892-3: LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN, SALOME, A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE -- IV 1894-5: THE SPHINX, AN IDEAL HUSBAND, and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST -- V 1895-8: The Silent Years and THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL -- VI Wilde's Posthumous Reputation -- POEMS -- 1. Unsigned review, Athenaeum -- 2. Unsigned notice, Saturday Review -- 3. Oscar Browning on Poems -- 4. Unsigned review, Dial -- 5. Unsigned review, Spectator -- 6. Walter Hamilton on Poems as 'aesthetic poetry' -- 7. T.W.Higginson on Wilde's 'unmanly' poetry -- 8. Ambrose Bierce on Wilde as 'sovereign of insufferables' -- VERA -- OR THE NIHILISTS -- 9. Unsigned review, New York Times -- 10. Unsigned review, New York Daily Tribune -- THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES -- 11. Walter Pater on The Happy Prince -- 12. Unsigned notice, Athenaeum -- 13. Alexander Galt Ross, review, Saturday Review -- 14. James Abbott McNeill Whistler on Wilde as a plagiarist -- 15. Wilde's response to Whistler's charge of plagiarism -- 16. Whistler's final word on the question of Wilde's plagiarism -- THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY -- 17. Unsigned review, St. James's Gazette -- 18. Unsigned review, Daily Chronicle -- 19. Unsigned notice, Scots Observer -- 20. Unsigned review, Punch -- 21. John Addington Symonds, letter to Horatio Brown -- 22. Julian Hawthorne, review, Lippincott's -- THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY -- 23. Unsigned review, Theatre -- 24. Unsigned notice, Athenaeum -- 25. Walter Pater on Dorian Gray -- THE DUCHESS OF PADUA -- 26. Unsigned review, New York Times.

27. Unsigned review, New York Daily Tribune -- INTENTIONS -- 28. Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette -- 29. Unsigned review, Athenaeum -- 30. Arthur Symons on Intentions -- 31. Richard Le Gallienne on Intentions -- 32. Agnes Repplier on Intentions -- LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME AND OTHER STORIES -- 33. Unsigned notice, Graphic -- 34. William Sharp on Lord Arthur Savile's Crime -- 35. W.B.Yeats on Lord Arthur Savile's Crime -- A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES -- 36. Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette -- 37. Unsigned review, Saturday Review -- 38. Unsigned notice, Athenaeum -- LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN -- 39. A.B.Walkley on Lady Windermere's Fan -- 40. Clement Scott on Lady Windermere's Fan -- 41. Unsigned review, Black and White -- 42. Frederick Wedmore on Lady Windermere's Fan -- 43. Unsigned review, Westminster Review -- 44. Justin Huntly McCarthy on Lady Windermere's Fan -- SALOME -- 45. Edgar Saltus on Wilde's reading of Salomé in manuscript -- 46. Unsigned notice, The Times -- 47. Max Beerbohm, letter to Reginald Turner -- 48. Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette -- 49. Lord Alfred Douglas on Salome -- 50. William Archer on Salome -- 51. Unsigned notice, Critic [New York] -- A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE -- 52. William Archer on A Woman of No Importance -- 53. William Archer, in defence of his praise of Wilde -- 54. A.B.Walkley, on A Woman of No Importance -- 55. Unsigned review, Saturday Review -- 56. 'An Open letter to Oscar Wilde, Esq.' -- 57. Unsigned review, Westminster Review -- 58. W.B.Yeats on A Woman of No Importance -- THE SPHINX -- 59. Unsigned review, Pall Mall Budget -- 60. W.E.Henley on The Sphinx -- 61. Unsigned review, Athenaeum -- AN IDEAL HUSBAND -- 62. H.G.Wells on An Ideal Husband -- 63. William Archer on An Ideal Husband -- 64. George Bernard Shaw on An Ideal Husband -- 65. Clement Scott on An Ideal Husband -- 66. A.B.Walkley on An Ideal Husband.

67. Henry James, letter to William James on the 'triumphant Oscar' -- 68. William Dean Howells on An Ideal Husband -- THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST -- 69. H.G.Wells on The Importance of Being Earnest -- 70. Reception of The Importance of Being Earnest -- 71. William Archer on The Importance of Being Earnest -- 72. Unsigned review, Truth -- 73. George Bernard Shaw on The Importance of Being Earnest -- 74. A.B.Walkley, on The Importance of Being Earnest -- 75. Unsigned review, Theatre -- 76. William Archer on the loss to British drama -- 77. Ernest Newman on Wilde's genius for paradox -- THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL -- 78. Unsigned review, Academy -- 79. W.E.Henley on The Ballad of Reading Gaol -- 80. Arthur Symons on The Ballad of Reading Gaol -- 81. Comment, Pall Mall Gazette -- 82. Unsigned review, Critic [New York] -- ON THE OCCASION OF WILDE'S DEATH -- 83. Unsigned obituary notice, New York Times -- 84. Unsigned obituary notice, The Times -- 85. Unsigned obituary notice, Pall Mall Gazette -- 86. Max Beerbohm on Wilde as a dramatist -- 87. J.T.Grein on Wilde as a dramatist -- II -- III -- 88. Henry-D.Davray on Wilde's career -- 89. J.T.Grein on The Importance of Being Earnest -- II. -- 90. Andre Gide on Wilde as a stylist -- DE PROFUNDIS -- 91. Letters to Robert Ross on De Profundis -- 92. E.V.Lucas in Times Literary Supplement -- 93. Max Beerbohm on De Profundis -- 94. G.S. Street on De Profundis -- 95. R.B.Cunninghame Graham on De Profundis -- 96. W.B.Yeats on Salome -- 97. The literary position of Oscar Wilde -- 98. James Joyce on The Picture of Dorian Gray -- 99. Archibald Render son on Wilde's plays -- 100. R.A.Scott-James on De Profundis -- COLLECTED WORKS -- 101. St John Hankin on Wilde's collected plays -- 102. Arthur Symons on Wilde as 'a prodigious entertainer' -- 103. Harold Child on Wilde's Collected Works.

104. Lord Alfred Douglas on Wilde's collected works -- 105. G.K.Chesterton on Wilde as a great artist and charlatan -- 106. T.Sturge Moore on Wilde's place in English literature -- 107. Edmund Gosse, letter to André Gide on Wilde's mediocrity -- 108. Lewis Piaget Shanks on Wilde's place in literature -- 109. T.W.H.Crosland on De Profundis as a disgrace to humanity -- 110. Charles Ricketts on Wilde as talker and writer -- 111. Holbrook Jackson on Wilde as dandy and artist -- 112. Ernst Bendz on Wilde's literary reputation -- 113. James Gibbons Huneker on Wilde as an imitator -- 114. Alice Wood on Wilde as a critic -- 115. John Cowper Powys on Wilde as a symbolic figure -- 116. Ernst Bendz: a defence of Wilde against the attack by Lord Alfred Douglas -- 117. Edgar Saltus on Wilde's literary ability -- 118. H.L. Mencken on Wilde as Puritan and aesthete -- 119. George Moore on Wilde as a writer in the 'third or fourth class' -- 120. Vincent O' Sullivan replies to Moore -- 121. Upton Sinclair on Wilde as an overrated writer -- 122. John Middleton Murry on Wilde's literary achievement -- 123. W.B.Yeats on The Happy Prince and Other Tales -- 124. A.B.Walkley on Wilde's comedies -- 125. John Drinkwater on The Importance of Being Earnest -- 126. Edward Shanks on Wilde's literary reputation -- 127. Arnold Bennett on Wilde as an outmoded writer -- Select Index -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
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