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an Gray. As this review is grossly unjust to me as an artist, I a

ness, that I have written it in order that it should be read by the most depraved members of the criminal and illiterate classes. Now, Sir, I do not suppose that the criminal and illiterate classes ever

is for the sake of this pleasure that one creates. The artist works with his eye on the ob

greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. If it does no

able crime of trying to confuse the artist with his su

conceiving the good. Let your reviewer, Sir, consider the bearings of Keats's fine criticism, for it is under these conditions that every artist works. One

nd wickedness are to him simply what the colours on his palette are to the painter. They are no more and they are no less. He sees that by their means a certain artistic effect can be p

d have had no meaning and the plot no issue. To keep this atmosphere vague and indeterminate and wonderful was the aim of the artist who wrote the story.

ave appeared in your paper. That the editor of the St. James's Gazette should have employed Caliban as his art-critic was possibly natural. The edito

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