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Essays and Lectures

Oscar Wilde

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. . .dary greatness in primitive times was a mere exaggeration. 'We are not justified,' he says, 'in rejecting the tradition of the magnitude of the Trojan armament, because Mycenae and the other towns of that age seem to us small and insignificant. For, if Lacedaemon was to become desolate, any antiquarian judging merely from its ruins would be inclined to regard the tale of the Spartan hegemony as an idle myth; for the city is a mere collection of villages after the old fashion of Hellas, and has none of those splendid public buildings and temples which characterise Athens, and whose remains, in the case of the latter city, would be so marvellous as to lead the superficial observer into an exaggerated estimate of the Athenian power.' Nothing can be more scientific than the archaeological canons laid down, whose truth is strikingly illustrated to any one who has compared the waste fields of the Eurotas plain with the lordly monuments of the Athenian acropolis. (3)

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Community Reviews

A perfect redemption book.

I don't know. It's Oscar Wilde, with all his crispiness, delicacy, precision of words and thoughts, not restricted by any kind of plot, just following his own interests. If you love him, you love him.

The Shakespeare one was the best.

There is a pedantic tone to these lectures that grates the nerves a bit. Surprising because his fiction reads so differently.

I can't believe that there were people fortunate enough to listen to a lecture taught by Oscar Wilde and I can't believe that there were people blessed to be in the same room as him. Mind blowing.
My love for Oscar Wilde is infinite and I aspire one day to be just a little bit like him. Read this bo

Tal y como el título indica, se trata de una serie de ensayos, artículos y recensiones sobre temas variados. La primera parte, conformada justamente por los ensayos, corresponde a los mismos que se hallan en su obra Intenciones (1891), es decir, los siguientes:

I) El crítico artista:

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