A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Oscar Wilde
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9780241746738
• ISBN: 978-0-241-74673-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Archive
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Cultural Studies, Theory of art, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / Popular Culture, Literary essays