Intentions by Oscar Wilde, Literary Collections, Essays, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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The Decay of Lying" -- from 1889 -- is an essay couched as a dialogue that Wilde once called it a "trumpet against the gate of dullness." The substance revolves around Wilde's Aestheticism, and he argues (through one character and another) that Art is superior to Nature. . . ."Pen, Pencil and Poison" -- from 1889 -- is a biographical essay on the notorious writer, murderer, and forger Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, who used the pen name "Janus Weathercock, " and here Wilde puts forward the notion that that Wainewright's criminality reveals the soul of a true artist.In "The Critic as Artist, " -- 1890 -- The Wilde's contends that critics must reach beyond the creative work that he considers."The Truth of Masks" (1885) is an argumentative response to an article of Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's which put forward the notion that Shakespeare had little interest in the costumes that his characters wore.