A critic in Pall Mall
A Critic in Pall Mall
A CRITIC
IN PALL MALL
BEING EXTRACTS FROM
REVIEWS AND MISCELLANIES
BY
OSCAR WILDE
METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
First Published in 1919
This selection has been made by Mr. E. V. LUCAS
CONTENTS
PAGE
THE TOMB OF KEATS
1
KEATS’S SONNET ON BLUE
4
DINNERS AND DISHES
8
SHAKESPEARE ON SCENERY
10
‘HENRY THE FOURTH’ AT OXFORD
15
A HANDBOOK TO MARRIAGE
18
TO READ OR NOT TO READ
21
THE LETTERS OF A GREAT WOMAN
22
BÉRANGER IN ENGLAND
27
THE POETRY OF THE PEOPLE
29
‘THE CENCI’
32
BALZAC IN ENGLISH
34
BEN JONSON
37
MR. SYMONDS’ HISTORY OF THE RENAISSANCE
39
MR. MORRIS’S ‘ODYSSEY’
44
RUSSIAN NOVELISTS
48
MR. PATER’S ‘IMAGINARY PORTRAITS’
51
A GERMAN PRINCESS
55
‘A VILLAGE TRAGEDY’
63
MR. MORRIS’S COMPLETION OF THE ‘ODYSSEY’
65
MRS. SOMERVILLE
70
ARISTOTLE AT AFTERNOON TEA
76
EARLY CHRISTIAN ART IN IRELAND
81
MADAME RISTORI
85
ENGLISH POETESSES
91
VENUS OR VICTORY
101
M. CARO ON GEORGE SAND
105
A FASCINATING BOOK
108
HENLEY’S POEMS
123
SOME LITERARY LADIES
129
POETRY AND PRISON
143
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WALT WHITMAN
146
IRISH FAIRY TALES
152
MR. W. B. YEATS
158
MR. YEATS’S ‘WANDERINGS OF OISIN’
160
MR. WILLIAM MORRIS’S LAST BOOK
162
SOME LITERARY NOTES
167
MR. SWINBURNE’S ‘POEMS AND BALLADS’ (Third Series) 173
A CHINESE SAGE
177
MR. PATER’S ‘APPRECIATIONS’
187
SENTENTIAE
194