A Critic in Pall Mall : 9781502891617

A Critic in Pall Mall is a classic collection of Oscar Wilde essays and excepts about literary history and criticism which includes the following titles: The tomb of Keats -- Keats's Sonnet on blue -- Dinners and dishes -- Shakespeare on scenery -- 'Henry the Fourth' at Oxford -- A handbook to marriage -- To read or not to read -- The letters of a great woman -- B?ranger in England -- The poetry of the people -- 'The Cenci' -- Balzac in English -- Ben Jonson -- Mr. Symonds' history of the Renaissance -- Mr. Morris's 'Odyssey' -- Russian novelists -- Mr. Pater's 'Imaginary portraits' -- A German princess -- 'A village tragedy' -- Mr. Morris's completion of the 'Odyssey' -- Mrs. Somerville -- Aristotle at afternoon tea -- Early Christian art in Ireland -- Madame Ristori -- English poetesses -- Venus or Victory -- M. Caro on George Sand -- A fascinating book -- Henley's poems -- Some literary ladies -- Poetry and prison -- The gospel according to Walt Whitman -- Irish fairy tales -- Mr. W.B. Yeats -- Mr. Yeats's 'Wanderings of Oisin' -- Mr. William Morris's last book -- Some literary notes -- Mr. Swinburne's 'Poems and ballads' (third series) -- A Chinese sage -- Mr. Pater's 'Appreciations' -- Sententiae.

Author: Oscar Wilde

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Oct 18, 2014

Number of Pages: 162 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1502891611

ISBN-13: 9781502891617