By: Oscar WILDE (1854 - 1900)
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)
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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