Pictorial Shakespeare, 1880-1890 - eTheses Repository - University ...

ihis tells us nv ch more about £>..rinaurue tn.'-n about the books
he enjoyed: it may be held to be of & piece wicVi the individualism
of the Aesthetic .Movement, but Sv/incurne keeps uc L
clear jf the movement's favourite figure, the a:aor; 1 irtist,
ohakespe re is the supreme moralist, and apar 1. from a sut)0ostion
tii, t I;, go is an artist in his creation of evil, ana another
nomin tina, Black V.'ill in Arocn of Favershan as "th.-i .^.ssionate
artist vithout pi:y or conscience" (p. 141) the ^x'^to riauoit
makes no appearances in A, Study ~^i testifies to this ambition, CG 0.0 th^ uincrunt iorms
ol ...li'-oso attempted (not alx/ays successfully) i.i tiio yoi^rs betvjeen
liol and L< >4 - prose poeias, quasi-biblical parables, iairy
talcs , f i nt> vile T s Grin^, Tjie^
i-^e-.. u-hostj, a short novel, historical sketchec (Ven,
pencil anc Poison' ; anc litor ry criticisn.^" Ko^t of those sub-
:, ;nres ./ere to oe found in the popular litor. ry journalism of
thi ^i hteen-ai^htien: ii"' wilcie wto in S'jne respec-ts a pla^i; ry,
it v/So . 'it-i the ;i re ;.;dneo3 o.:.' a popular journalist s^eKin, . the
impact of . >; . i.os:ui *. hi.l.Jt lloidn,_, his ; UGH, nee t..u pi. cures
0- recognition, i.ha.t he oorro. uci I'r ;n Po.tor ni^ht aiiook, out
tha orris i')orrov.red fron nico.le- .T¥O\J oia^a in.: journalism uould
ht.ve a pallia toj^y effect on his n:>ro coi^crv tive roaeer:;;.
;.it"r the name manner Tile 3, like Shrw, adopted end no
e-:istin0 theatrical forns, a .roced.ro ahioa he seu::is to have
bought to . lar-.tery by 1 J>94 in TIi_e_ Ijnp_grtra'ice_ of beiu^. ^.: rnesit.
A^ain line o.- tav;, bi:t on a smaller scale, h^ ublished in the
cour;-o of the "apprenticeship" a number of t'.or.tric&l revio .s