“ You say that a great artist cannot recognise the beauty of work different from his own. ”
Oscar Wilde, Intentions (1891). copy citation
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
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| Source | Intentions |
| Topic | beauty work |
| Date | 1891 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/887/887-h/887-h.htm |
Context
“The energy of creation hurries him blindly on to his own goal. The wheels of his chariot raise the dust as a cloud around him. The gods are hidden from each other. They can recognise their worshippers. That is all.
Ernest. You say that a great artist cannot recognise the beauty of work different from his own.
Gilbert. It is impossible for him to do so. Wordsworth saw in Endymion merely a pretty piece of Paganism, and Shelley, with his dislike of actuality, was deaf to Wordsworth’s message, being repelled by its form, and Byron, that great passionate human incomplete creature, could appreciate neither the poet of the cloud nor the poet of the lake, and the wonder of Keats was hidden from him.”
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