In ""The Critic as Artist,"" Oscar Wilde declares that the critic's artistic capabilities are as important as those of the artist. Wilde's passionate defense of the aesthetics of art criticism is among the wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays of this collection, which includes ""Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"" by Mark Twain, Matthew Arnold's ""The Study of Poetry,"" ""The Philosophy of Composition"" by Edgar Allan Poe, and other selections.
ISBN: | 9780486826752 |
Publication date: | 30th September 2019 |
Author: | Nora Rawn, John Grafton |
Publisher: | Dover Publications an imprint of Dover Publications Inc. |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 208 pages |
Series: | Dover Thrift Editions |
Genres: |
Literary studies: general |