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Article: Wilde about Oscar; The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. Edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (Fourth Estate, pounds 35). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds.(Books)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- November 18, 2000
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Byline: Richard Edmonds
What would Wilde have done had he lived on? Would he have sent emails, voice-mails, facsimiles and so on? And to extend the thought a little further, have not all these modern technological gimmicks killed the art of the letter completely?
Who, after all, would actually sit down to unveil their thoughts to a dear friend when today they can easily pour a flood of inane chatter into a mobile phone while using a public toilet or sitting in the theatre.
It does mean that a book as vast as this one, all 1,200 pages of it (edited ...
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... ... earliest surviving letter from Wilde to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, whom he called Bosie, which documents the start ... probably in late 1892, Wilde expressed candid yearnings ... birthday. He wrote: "Dearest Bosie, I am so glad you are better ...
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