Essays And Lectures - 9781547050895

With the exception of the Poems in Prose this volume does not contain anything which the author ever contemplated reprinting. The Rise of Historical Criticism is interesting to admirers of his work, however, because it shows the development of his style and the wide intellectual range distinguishing the least born? of all the late Victorian writers, with the possible exception of Ruskin. It belongs to Wilde's Oxford days when he was the unsuccessful competitor for the Chancellor's English Essay Prize. Perhaps Magdalen, which has never forgiven herself for nurturing the author of Ravenna, may be felicitated on having escaped the further intolerable honour that she might have suffered by seeing crowned again with paltry academic parsley the most highly gifted of all her children in the last century.

Author: Oscar Wilde

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jun 06, 2017

Number of Pages: 136 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1547050896

ISBN-13: 9781547050895