The English Renaissance of Art By Oscar Wilde
The English Renaissance of Art By Oscar Wilde Reprinted from Essays and Lectures by Oscar Wilde , London: Methuen and Co., 1908. 'The English Renaissance of Art' was delivered as a lecture for the first time in the Chickering Hall, New York, on January 9, 1882 A portion of it was reported in the New York Tribune on the following day and in other American papers subsequently. Since then this portion has been reprinted, more or less accurately, from time to time, in unauthorised editions. There are in existence no less than four copies of the lecture, the earliest of which is entirely in the author's handwriting. The others ore typewritten and contain many corrections and additions made by the author in manuscript. These have all been collated and the text here given contains, as nearly as possible, the lecture in its original form as delivered by the author during his tour in the United States. A MONG the many debts which we owe to the supreme