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Wilde, Oscar

  1. In Beer, Thomas. The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Octagon Books, 1980, c1926. pp. 129-134.
    Biography.

  2. In Borges, Jorge Luis. Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952. Austin: University of Texas Press, [1964]. pp. 79-81.
    Criticism -- Works

  3. In Connolly, Cyril. Previous Convictions. New York: Harper & Row, [c1963]. pp. 227-234.
    Biography.

  4. In Donoghue, Denis. England, Their England: Commentaries on English Language and Literature. New York: Knopf, 1988. pp. 228-242.
    Biography. Criticism -- The Importance of Being Earnest

  5. InDyson, A. E. The Crazy Fabric; Essays in Irony. London: Macmillan, 1965. pp. 138-150.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Soul of Man Under Socialism

  6. In Eco, Umberto. On Literature. Orlando : Harcourt ; c2004. pp. 72-83.
    Criticism -- Aphorisms

  7. In Ellmann, Richard. Eminent Domain; Yeats Among Wilde, Joyce, Pound, Eliot, and Auden. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. pp. 9-27, 127-130.
    Biography. Criticism -- Works -- The Decay of Lying -- Salome

  8. In Evans, Ifor. English Poetry in the Later Nineteenth Century. New York: Barnes & Noble, [1966]. pp. 390-402.
    Biography. Criticism -- Poetry

  9. In Faverty, Frederic Everett. Your Literary Heritage. Philadelpia: Lippincott, [1959]. pp. 180-182.
    Criticism -- The Importance of Being Earnest

  10. In George, Kathleen. Rhythm in Drama. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1980. 99-101.
    Criticism -- The Importance of Being Earnest

  11. In Hampshire, Stuart. Modern Writers and Other Essays. New York: Knopf, 1970 [c1969]. pp. 71-77.
    Criticism -- Letters

  12. In Kronenberger, Louis. The Last Word: Portraits of Fourteen Master Aphorists. New York: Macmillan, [1972]. pp. 186-204.
    Biography. Criticism -- Works

  13. Liebman, Sheldon W. "Character Design in The Picture of Dorian Grey ." In Studies in the Novel, Volume XXXI, No. 3, Fall 1999. pp. 296-316.
    Criticism -- The Picture of Dorian Grey

  14. In Mabley, Edward. Dramatic Construction . Philadelphia, Chilton Book Co., 1972. pp. 128-138.
    Criticism -- The Importance of Being Earnest

  15. In Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae. London; New Haven : Yale University Press, c1990. pp. 512-572, plus see index.
    Criticism -- The Importance of Being Earnest -- The Picture of Dorian Grey -- Salome

  16. In Peckham, Morse. Romanticism. New York: G. Braziller, [1965]. pp. 286-309.
    Criticism -- The Decay of Lying

  17. In Powys, John Cowper. Suspended Judgments: Essays on Books and Sensations. New York: G.A. Shaw, 1916. pp. 401-422.
    Criticism -- Works

  18. In Rosenthal, M. L. The Modern Poets; a Critical Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960. pp. 23.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  19. In Roy, Emil. British Drama Since Shaw. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1972]. pp. 20-35.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Importance of Being Earnest

  20. In Sawyer, Newell W. The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham. New York: Russell & Russell, [1969]. pp. 154-159.
    Criticism -- Works

  21. In Seward, Barbara. The Symbolic Rose. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. pp. 84-86.
    Criticism -- The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Salome

  22. In Smiley, Jane. 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel. New York : Knopf, c2005. pp. 414-416.
    Criticism -- The Picture of Dorian Gray

  23. In Stanford, Derek. Poets of the 'Nineties. London: J. Baker, 1965. pp. 215-223.
    Criticism -- The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  24. InWeygandt, Cornelius The Time of Yeats: English Poetry of To-day Against an American Background. New York: Russell & Russell, [1969, c1937]. pp. 46-51.
    Criticism -- Works

  25. InWeintraub, Stanley. Literary Criticism of Oscar Wilde. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [c1968]. pp. 233-246.
    Criticism -- The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Lady Windermere's Fan -- Salome

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