A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint by Oscar Wilde

“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.

Paperback

Publication: 17 Apr 2025, Penguin 
ISBN: 9780241746738
Extent: 160 pages