I read Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years in great anticipation. The author, Nicholas Frankel, is the editor of The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition (also published by the Harvard University Press), which I highly recommend.
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Oh no. Don’t mix Interesting Literature’s Lives of Victorian Writers Told in Limericks with commuting; before you know it, you’ll be thinking in limericks yourself. Here are my attempts. James McNeill Whistler Butterflies aren’t ‘sposed to sting But tears Jimmy Whistler did wring From his friends, don’t you see He’d make enemies His praises you had to sing Oscar Wilde
Read moreor, An Oxford Love Story “Oxford, that lotus-land, saps the will-power, the power of action. But, in doing so, it clarifies the mind, makes larger the vision, gives, above all, that playful and caressing suavity of manner which comes of a conviction that nothing matters, except ideas, and that not even ideas are worth dying for, inasmuch as the ghosts
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