A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint

Author(s): Wilde, Oscar,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 17/04/2025,
Pagination: 160 pages,
Series: Penguin Archive,
Imprint: Penguin Classics,
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,
Book Classification: Literary essays,
Dimensions: 180 x 111 x 11
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9780241746738

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'All art,' Oscar Wilde once announced, 'is quite useless.' Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject of art – useless, illuminating, artificial, uplifting, radical, gorgeous, boring, sublime – and his most brilliant aphorisms on the creative life. Whether lamenting the crass urge to hold art to realist or natural standards or arguing against morality as a guiding principle, Wilde defends the artist while delighting the audience.