Wilde, Oscar (1854 - 1900) | Oscar Wilde (Letter Date 26 June 1890)
OSCAR WILDE (LETTER DATE 26 JUNE 1890)
SOURCE: Wilde, Oscar. "To the Editor of the St. James's Gazette." In The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde, edited by Richard Ellmann, pp. 238-41. New York: Random House, 1969.
In the following letter, published in the St. James's Gazette two days after that newspaper published a vicious attack ("A Study in Puppydom," June 24, 1890) on The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde responds to the critic's derisive evaluation of his work and defends his novel.
In your issue of today you state that my brief letter published in your columns is the "best reply" I can make to your article upon Dorian Gray. This is not so. I do not propose to fully discuss the matter here, but I feel bound to say that your article contains the most unjustifiable attack that has been made upon any man of letters for many years. The writer of it, who...
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