The Unmasking of Oscar WildeIgnatius Press, 3. 9. 2009 - 400 strán (strany) Vilified by fellow Victorians for his sexuality and his dandyism, Oscar Wilde, the great poet, satirist and playwright, is hailed today, in some circles, as a progressive sexual liberator. But this image is not how Wilde saw himself. Joseph Pearce's biography strips away pretensions to show the real man, his aspirations and desires. It uncovers how he was broken by his prison sentence; it probes the deeper thinking behind masterpieces such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis; and it traces his fascination with Catholicism through to his eleventh-hour conversion. Pearce removes the masks and reveals the Wilde beneath the surface. He has written a profound, wide-ranging study with many original insights on a great literary figure. |
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... verses on the coming revolution, on the famine and on the exodus from Ireland of the famished, all of which were ... verse suggested was heightened by her growing disillusionment. She and her husband dissociated themselves from the ...
... verse, which serves as a graphic illustration of the way that Wilde's mask is lifted in the greatest of his art. Here is to be seen the soul stripped of its disguises, the broken heart laid bare: 5 Tread lightly, she is near Under the ...
... verse it is easy to believe that his sister's death had awakened the melancholy that Wilde in later years insisted was hidden behind the jocular pose. Thereafter, as Wilde heaped layers of earth upon it, his heart was carefully hidden ...
... proportions in his poem ' Ave Imperatrix ' . This verse retains a subtle sense of his smothered Irishness in the implicit condemnation of Cromwell and in the lament over those who had died in foreign lands, though tellingly it is the.
... verse, his poetic posturing was little more than a mask. It is tempting to search for a sense of irony in 'Ave Imperatrix' that would convey layers of meaning beyond the almost jingoistic surface. There is a subversive subtlety in the ...
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Malice Through the Looking Glass | |
Critic or Artist | |
Friends and Relations | |
Saints and Sinners | |
Fatal Attraction | |
Courting Conviction | |
Descent | |
Abyss | |
Courting Controversy | |
Poetry and Pose | |
Courting Constance | |
The French Connection | |
Truth and Masks | |
Purity and Passion | |
Poison and Passion | |
Unhappy Hypocrite | |
Purgatory | |
Out of the Depths | |
Wilderness | |
Hounded by Heaven | |
Revelations | |
Endnotes | |