Oscar Wilde, a Critical Study
Excerpt: ...painting, a Gabriel Metsu or a Jan van Eyck, in which he paints Wainewright with his cats, his curiosities, his crucifixes, his rare books, his cameos, and his brown-biscuit tea-pots, filigree worked, against a background in which green predominates. He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals. Wilde also was fond of green. I have not counted occasions, but I have the impression that green is the colour most often mentioned alike in his verse and in his prose. Green and jade: these are his keynot…
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- ISBN: 978-0-217-24316-2
- EAN: 9780217243162
- Produktnummer: 5253982
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 44 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D0.7 cm 109 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 109
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