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OSCAR WILDE MISCELLANEOUS 1 Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous By Oscar Wilde Get any book for free on: www.A Get any book for free on: www.A OSCAR WILDE MISCELLANEOUS 2 Contents: Preface by Robert Ross A Florentine Tragedy--A Fragment La Sainte Courtisane--A Fragment Get any book for free on: www.A OSCAR WILDE MISCELLANEOUS 3 PREFACE BY ROBERT ROSS As to my personal attitude towards criticism, I confess in brief the following:- If my works are good and of any importance whatever for the further development of art, they will maintain their place in spite of all adverse criticism and in spite of all hateful suspicions attached to my artistic intentions. If my works are of no account, the most gratifying success of the moment and the most enthusiastic approval of as augurs cannot make them endure. The waste-paper press can devour them as it has devoured many others, and I will not shed a tear . . . and the world will move on just the same.--RICHARD STRAUSS. The contents of this volume require some explanation of an historical nature. It is scarcely realised by the present generation that Wildes works on their first appearance, with the exception of De Profundis, were met with almost general condemnation and ridicule. The plays on their first production were grudgingly praised because their obvious success could not be ignored; but on their subsequent publication in book form they were violently assailed. That nearly all of them have held the stage is still a source of irritation among certain journalists. Salome however enjoys a singular career. As every one knows, it was prohibited by the Censor when in rehearsal by Madame Bernhardt at the Palace Theatre in 1892. On its pub