That small and sickly eyes may glare and gloat.
This work criticizes a proposal to write an article about its author in the Mercure de France by quoting the lines "I think they love not Art / Who break the crystal of a poet's heart / That small and sickly eyes may glare and gloat." It regrets that the story of Christ was "interrupted and spoiled by the dreary classical Renaissance" of "Petrarch, and Raphael's frescoes, and Palladian architecture," since they were "made from without and by dead rules," and repeats that "The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right." Its author attacks a former friend for using the name "Prince Fleur de Lys" to "seek entrance to the House of Pain," and bitterly asserts that he now sits in Malebolge between Gilles de Retz and the Marquise de Sade. This work compares Robbie Ross lifting his hat as its author was taken to Bankruptcy Court to a saint kissing a leper, and accuses its addressee of having a "terrible lack of imagination," which brought its author to financial ruin and prevented him from completing the dramas La Sainte Courtesane and the Florentine Tragedy. Its author calls sorrow "the type and test of all great art," and cites its presence in his short stories "The Young King" and "The ? Happy Prince." Beginning "In Carcere Et Vinculis," and addressed to "Bosie," for 10 points, name this letter written to Lord Alfred Douglas from Reading Prison by Oscar Wilde.
This work criticizes a proposal to write an article about its author in the Mercure de France by quoting the lines "I think they love not Art /
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