You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

I find such screeds fascinating - not as an expression of "the truth" but as "one way of looking at things" (from a particular position, in a particular moment in time, given what has come before, what was happening then and what was to come) - even as my mind begins to undermine the argument (and, in case I haven't made my point, I'd have the same reaction to a po-faced essay about the obvious superiority of realism over imagination). Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.With this beautiful Collectible Edition, you can enjoy Wilde’s enduring literary legacy again and again. Next, came the poems; the reader isn’t a big fan of poetry and so some really didn’t resonate with them, but they read quickly.

The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition. In Wilde's final prose work, written between 1896 and 1897 in Reading Gaol following his trial for gross indecency, the poet and playwright reflects on his hedonistic lifestyle and relationships, their consequences, and the spiritual re-alignment he intended to undertake. There is nothing that art cannot express, and I know that the work I have done, since I met Dorian Gray, is good work, is the best work of my life.

The Soul of Man under Socialism" First published in the Fortnightly Review (1891), republished in The Soul of Man (1895), privately printed. The Decay Of Lying" is an essay (presented as a dialogue) and, honestly, I'll probably need to give it another read and dissect it at my leisure at a later date because I was mostly in the wrong head-space when I read it. Powerful verses, grim but deeply heartfelt, here's one of his most intense text, and surely one of his best work. Uso il termine "appassionanti" perché non si può fare a meno di schierarsi con Wilde contro la disumanità con cui i carcerati vengono trattati (la cui descrizione è brutale e disarmante) e condividere l'acredine dell'autore. Though obviously Victorian with regards to characters and setting, but the influence of French Symbolism is very easy to see.