A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies
Before Oscar Wilde became the playwright of "The Importance of Being Earnest," he was the sharpest pen in Victorian London. This collection gathers his reviews and essays from the Pall Mall Gazette, revealing a critical mind that could dismantle a mediocre novel with the same precision it celebrated a great one. Here Wilde writes on Keats, on the architecture of Rome, on the nature of art itself, applying his famous wit not to society's follies but to the serious business of evaluating literature and culture. The pieces on Keats are particularly striking, full of genuine reverence for poetry delivered in Wilde's most lapidary prose. What emerges is Wilde the serious artist, not just the dinner-table wit, proving that his famous cleverness was always in service of genuine artistic conviction.
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“It is possible, of course, that I may exaggerate about them. I certainly hope that I do; for where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiassed opinion is always valueless.””
— Oscar Wilde
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