The Critic as Artist
work by Wilde
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Irish literature
- In Irish literature: George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde
“The Critic as Artist” (1890), a dialogue on aesthetics, emphasizes Wilde’s elevation of the individual. “Criticism is itself an art,” he wrote; the response of the critic to a work of art should be to create another. Wilde wrote fairy tales and short stories, and…
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