>Jack: On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I've now realised

I honestly feel like knowing this is all you need to know about the measure of Wilde as a writer. Charming, funny, clever, but ultimately trash. Chesterton was completely right about him.

"Writing a play is like folding a napkin - One never knows how it should end!"

- Wilde

"A fashionable hat should be seldom seen, and never heard"

- Wilde

>>9326512
Dorian Gray is genuinely good, but yes all of his other work is very lacking.

>>9326512
>but ultimately trash

aww c'mon that's not fair, shouldn't the fact that his work was charming, funny and clever not be enough to make him worth reading?

>>9326512
He offers the usual social commentary found in Victorian lit, but he does it with so much more fun and liveliness. Though I wouldn't rank him as one of the best in the English tradition, I think he's a worthwhile writer.

Also, what this guy said >>9326551

Wilde was exceptional. Huysman was a genius.

>>9326546
Add The Decay of Lying -and- The Critic as Artist. Both relevant still, and mercifully short.

>>9327599
What does Huysman [sic] have to do with this thread?

It is a rather short piece but what are your opinions on his The Nightingale and The Rose?

>>9329068
Not the guy asked, but assume the reference is to the Lord Henry Wotton chatacter, supposedly inspired by Pater, Huysmanns, and others too, perhaps. Though I really don't care for A Rebours in particular, the fellow's right: Huysmanns really is great.

>>9326512
Reading Gaol redeems him

I have an anthology of his children's works, they are fantastic, esp the young king

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>>9329068

>le title drop meme

I fucking hate you guys.

>>9330805
Glad something good finally came out of Reading.

>>9330825
Don't blame us, blame Oscar.