Tag Archives: Wilde

Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Houyhnhnm

[what follows is, even more than usual for this blog, an amateur reaction from dipping ignorant toes into vast oceans] Visionary, poetic, extreme: Nietzsche and Blake provide book-ends to Romanticism. Both seek to up-end conventional morality, Blake because it represents … Continue reading →

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“The Soul Of Man Under Socialism” by Oscar Wilde

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Houyhnhnm

A series of cut’n’pastes from Wilde’s essay. Lots here. His sympathies lie with the poor, whose condition he clearly recognises (“[criminals] are merely what ordinary, respectable, commonplace people would be if they had not got enough to eat”). And his … Continue reading →

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