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  1. Prologue and Introduction

    5:45

  2. Dinners and Dishes

    4:50

  3. A Modern Epic

    5:48

  4. Shakespeare on Scenery

    8:23

  5. A Bevy of Poets

    9:15

  6. Parnassus Versus Philology

    2:39

  7. Hamlet at the Lyceum

    10:16

  8. Two New Novels (May 15, 1885)

    3:31

  9. Henry the Fourth at Oxford

    10:24

  10. Modern Greek Poetry

    4:17

  11. Olivia at the Lyceum

    8:49

  12. As You Like It at Coombe House

    7:35

  13. A Handbook to Marriage

    4:41

  14. Half-Hours with the Worst Authors

    5:47

  15. One of Mr. Conway's Remainders

    4:43

  16. To Read or Not to Read

    3:38

  17. Twelfth Night at Oxford

    4:50

  18. The Letters of a Great Woman

    8:23

  19. News from Parnassus

    8:10

  20. Some Novels

    7:26

  21. A Literary Pilgrim

    5:44

  22. Béranger in England

    4:28

  23. The Poetry of the People

    6:00

  24. The Cenci

    6:01

  25. Helena in Troas

    8:04

  26. Pleasing and Prattling

    7:02

  27. Balzac in English

    8:59

  28. Two New Novels (Sept. 16, 1880)

    6:17

  29. Ben Jonson

    10:16

  30. The Poets' Corner--I

    6:17

  31. A Ride Through Morrocco

    5:34

  32. The Children of the Poets

    8:20

  33. New Novels (October 28, 1886)

    9:17

  34. A Politician's Poetry

    7:15

  35. Mr. Symonds' History of the Renaissance

    8:38

  36. A 'Jolly' Art Critic

    12:52

  37. A Sentimental Journey Through Literature

    8:22

  38. Common-Sense in Art

    6:47

  39. Miner and Minor Poets

    10:00

  40. A New Calendar

    6:25

  41. The Poets' Corner--II

    8:08

  42. Great Writers by Little Men

    9:08

  43. A New Book on Dickens

    6:01

  44. Our Book-Shelf

    7:37

  45. A Cheap Edition of a Great Man

    8:57

  46. Mr. Morris's Odyssey

    7:37

  47. A Batch of Novels

    9:07

  48. Some Novels

    12:15

  49. The Poets' Corner--III

    8:11

  50. Mr. Pater's Imaginary Portraits

    8:35

  51. A Good Historical Novel

    6:03

  52. New Novels (August 20, 1887)

    5:45

  53. Two Biographies of Keats

    9:54

  54. A Scotchman on Scottish Poetry

    6:50

  55. Literary and Other Notes--I

    47:35

  56. Mr. Mahaffy's New Book

    14:29

  57. Mr. Morris's Completion of the Odyssey

    8:53

  58. Sir Charles Bowen's Virgil

    7:41

  59. Literary and Other Notes--II

    32:47

  60. Aristotle at Afternoon Tea

    10:19

  61. Early Christian Art in Ireland

    5:52

  62. Literary and Other Notes--III

    44:12

  63. The Poets' Corner--IV

    13:35

  64. Literary and Other Notes--IV

    34:23

  65. The Poets' Corner--V

    9:55

  66. Venus or Victory

    10:27

  67. Literary and Other Notes--V

    23:50

  68. The Poets' Corner--VI

    11:06

  69. M. Caro on George Sand

    9:52

  70. The Poets' Corner--VII

    11:55

  71. A Fascinating Book

    25:00

  72. The Poets' Corner--VIII

    12:55

  73. A Note on Some Modern Poets

    30:56

  74. Sir Edwin Arnold's Last Volume

    10:09

  75. Australian Poets

    12:36

  76. Some Literary Notes--I

    38:09

  77. Poetry and Prison

    9:36

  78. The Gospel According to Walt Whitman

    18:40

  79. The New President

    7:54

  80. Some Literary Notes--II

    27:13

  81. One of the Bibles of the World

    8:34

  82. Poetical Socialists

    7:15

  83. Mr. Brander Matthews' Essays

    8:50

  84. Some Literary Notes--III

    25:04

  85. Mr. William Morris's Last Book

    10:05

  86. Adam Lindsay Gordon

    12:25

  87. The Poets' Corner--IX

    11:59

  88. Some Literary Notes--IV

    21:07

  89. Mr. Froude's Blue-Book

    10:39

  90. Some Literary Notes--V

    22:35

  91. Ouida's New Novel

    10:29

  92. Some Literary Notes--VI

    22:37

  93. A Thought-Reader's Novel

    7:52

  94. The Poets' Corner--X

    11:13

  95. Mr. Swinburne's Last Volume

    8:09

  96. Three New Poets

    8:27

  97. A Chinese Sage

    18:31

  98. Mr. Pater's Last Volume

    18:46

  99. Primavera

    5:46

  100. Index of Authors and Books Reviewed

    18:46

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Oscar Wilde turns a review of a cookery book into an argument about art, appetite and the failings of the English kitchen. His comments on risotto, salads and macaroni show how readily a practical subject becomes material for literary criticism and comedy. Collected in this 1908 volume, the pieces address books and theatre, with poetry and dramatic writing among the subjects under discussion.

The range of his judgments matters as much as the jokes. When considering verse drama, Wilde asks how a work intended for reading can convey action, thought and feeling without the resources of a stage. He weighs psychological detail against the loss of narrative description, and notices what a brief stage direction cannot achieve on the page. Readers interested in criticism can follow him testing artistic principles against particular works, from the presentation of food to the handling of poetic speech.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s.

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