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To: Russ

Dorian Gray is good, but this selection is rather strange. Wilde was quite funny at times but superficial. Compared to Chesterton, Wilde is a flyweight.


4 posted on 01/06/2007 6:20:49 AM PST by sine_nomine (Bush and Congress: Build the border fence - it's in the Constitution - foreign invasion, etc.)
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To: sine_nomine

That is my view. How Wilde ever got into the Canons of English literature baffles me. The body of his work runs from A to B. A few lightweight comedies as social satire. A novel and some dismal poetry. The rest is mincing posture. Read a biography of Wilde and came to the conclusion he was the Paris Hilton of his time. Famous for being famous. In 50 years time the same thing will be said of Truman Capote and Norman Mailer.

Narcissism doesn't travel well...


20 posted on 01/06/2007 10:22:03 AM PST by tomcorn
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