BIB_ID
119962
Accession number
MA 1617.462
Creator
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Display Date
London, England, 1888 December?.
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Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.4 x 9.9 cm
Notes
Date of writing from published letter cited below.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Saying "Quite right - my dear 'Marsyas et Apollo;' To learn how to write English prose I have studied the prose of France. I am charmed that you recognise it - that shows I have succeeded - I am also charmed that no one else does - that shows I have succeeded also. Yes! Flaubert is my master, and when I get on my translation of the Tentation I shall be Flaubert II. Roi par grace de Dieu - and I hope something else beyond. Where do you think I am not so good? I want very much to know - Of course it is, to me, a new genre."
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