Research Catalog

Title

The artist as critic : critical writings of Oscar Wilde / edited by Richard Ellmann.

Author

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1982, c1969.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ellmann, Richard, 1918-
• Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987

Description

xxviii, 446 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Phoenix book

Uniform Title

Works. Selections. 1982

Alternative Title

Works. 1982

Subject

• Books > Reviews
• Criticism

Genre/Form

Reviews

Note

• Reprint. Originally published: New York : Random House, [1969]
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for The artist as critic : critical writings of Oscar Wilde / edited by Richard Ellmann. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Introduction: The Critic as Artist as Wilde, by Richard Ellmann -- The Tomb of Keats (1877) -- Impressions of America (1883) -- Mr. Whistler's Ten O'Clock (1885) -- The Relation of Dress to Art. A Note in Black and White on Mr. Whistler's Lecture (1885) -- Dinners and Dishes (1885) -- [George Saintsbury:] "Half Hours with the Worst Authors" (1886) -- To Read, or Not to Read (1886) -- Balzac in English (1886) -- Ben Jonson (1886) -- Two Biographies of Sir Philip Sidney (1886) -- The Poets and the People (1887) -- A New Book on Dickens (1887) -- A Cheap Edition of a Great Man [Rossetti] (1887) -- The American Invasion (1887) -- The American Man (1887) -- The Butterfly's Boswell (1887) -- The Rout of the R[oyal] A[cademy] (1887) -- William Morris's Odyssey (1887) -- [Dostoevsky's The Insulted and Injured] (1887) -- Mr. Mahaffy's New Book [Greek Life and Thought] (1887) -- The Poet's Corner (1888) -- M. Caro on George Sand (1888) -- [Poems by Henley and Sharp] (1888) -- English Poetesses (1888) -- London Models (1889) -- Poetry and Prison (1889) -- The Gospel According to Walt Whitman (1889) -- The New President [of the Royal Society of British Artists] (1889) -- [Yeats's Fairy and Folk Tales] (1889) -- Mr. Froude's Blue Book [on Ireland] (1889) -- Ouida's New Novel [Guilderoy] (1889) -- Mr. Swinburne's Last Volume (1889) -- [Yeats's The Wanderings of Oisin] (1889) -- The Portrait of Mr W.H. (1921) -- A Chinese Sage [Confucius] (1890) -- Mr. Pater's Last Volume [Appreciations] -- Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) -- [Defense of Dorian Gray] (letters to the press, 1890) -- The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891) -- Intentions (1891) -- The Decay of Lying -- Pen Pencil and Poison -- The Critic as Artist -- The Truth of Masks -- Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894) -- [Oscar Wilde on the Witness Stand] (1895) -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Criticism, Books Reviews.

ISBN

0226897648 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^82013361^

OCLC

• 8626979
• SCSB-12226392

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library