Oscar Wilde: Classic or Dud? Search and Destroy

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He was especially good in my eighteen-year-old velvet jacket phase. Still good now. I agree about De Profundis.

Will, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

nine years pass...

Alex Ross in the New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/08/08/110808crat_atlarge_ross?currentPage=all

Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 August 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

An excellent piece.

livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 August 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link

And as we already both agree on, the Ellmann bio remains the gold standard for any general approach.

Only finally recently read the Lippincott Dorian Gray so this article was well timed. Knowing that earlier versions exist intrigues. (I'd read some on the initial changes but not all.)

Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 August 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link

six years pass...

hbd Oscar, millennial Twitter rageaholics would demonize you worse than the Crown did.

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 October 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link


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