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Miscellanies

Oscar Wilde

The beginning of "Miscellanies" provides both a dedication and an introduction by Robert Ross, who discusses the fragmented nature of the volume while asserting Wilde's unique literary voice.

"Miscellanies" by Oscar Wilde is a collection of essays and other literary works. The beginning of "Miscellanies" provides both a dedication and an introduction by Robert Ross, who discusses the fragmented nature of the volume while asserting Wilde's unique literary voice.

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As one enters Rome from the Via Ostiensis by the Porta San Paolo, the first object that meets the eye is a marble pyramid which stands close at hand on the left.

There are many Egyptian obelisks in Rome—tall, snakelike spires of red sandstone, mottled with strange writings, which remind us of the pillars of flame which led the children of Israel through the desert away from the land of the Pharaohs; but more wonderful than these to look upon is this gaunt, wedge-shaped pyramid standing here in this Italian city, unshattered amid the ruins and wrecks of time, looking older than the Eternal City itself, like terrible impassiveness turned to stone. And so in the Middle Ages men supposed this to be the sepulchre of Remus, who was slain by his own brother at the founding of the city, so ancient and mysterious it appears; but we have now, perhaps unfortunately, more accurate information about it, and know that it is the tomb of one Caius Cestius, a Roman gentleman of small note, who died about 30 B.C.

Yet though we cannot care much for the dead man who lies in lonely state beneath it, and who is only known to the world through his sepulchre, still this pyramid will be ever dear to the eyes of all English-speaking people, because at evening its shadows fall on the tomb of one who walks with Spenser, and Shakespeare, and Byron, and Shelley, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the great procession of the sweet singers of England.

Contents

  1. 01Dedication: To Walter Ledger
  2. 02Introduction
  3. 03The Tomb of Keats
  4. 04The Grosvenor Gallery, 1877
  5. 05The Grosvenor Gallery 1879
  6. 06L’envoi
  7. 07Mrs. Langtry as Hester Grazebrook
  8. 08Woman’s Dress
  9. 09More Radical Ideas Upon Dress Reform
  10. 10Mr. Whistler’s Ten O’clock
  11. 11The Relation of Dress to Art: A Note in Black and White on Mr. Whistler’s Lecture
  12. 12Keats’s Sonnet on Blue
  13. 13The American Invasion
  14. 14Sermons in Stones at Bloomsbury: The New Sculpture Room at the British Museum
  15. 15The Unity of the Arts: A Lecture and a Five O’clock
  16. 16Art at Willis’s Rooms
  17. 17Mr. Morris on Tapestry
  18. 18Sculpture at the Arts and Crafts
  19. 19Printing and Printers
  20. 20The Beauties of Bookbinding
  21. 21The Close of the Arts and Crafts
  22. 22English Poetesses
  23. 23London Models
  24. 24Letter to Joaquin Miller
  25. 25Notes on Whistler
  26. 26Reply to Whistler
  27. 27Letters on Dorian Gray
  28. 28An Anglo-Indian’s Complaint
  29. 29A House of Pomegranates
  30. 30Puppets and Actors
  31. 31Lady Windermere’s Fan: An Explanation
  32. 32Salomé
  33. 33The Thirteen Club
  34. 34The Ethics of Journalism
  35. 35The Green Carnation
  36. 36Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
  37. 37The Rise of Historical Criticism
  38. 38La Sainte Courtisane; or, the Woman Covered with Jewels
  39. 39The English Renaissance of Art
  40. 40House Decoration
  41. 41Art and the Handicraftsman
  42. 42Lecture to Art Students
  43. 43Bibliography by Stuart Mason
  44. 44Footnotes.

About this edition

Author
Oscar Wilde
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
286 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers