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TypeContemporary review (original)
CollectionA House of Pomegranates
Publication countryUnited States of America
Publication nameCurrent Opinion: A Magazine of Record and Review
Publication dateYear 1892Month 02Day 01
Contributed byRegina M. Ponciano
How to cite
MLA

Review of A House of Pomegranates, by Oscar Wilde. Current Opinion: A Magazine of Record and Review, vol. 9, no. 2, 1 Feb. 1892, p. 320. Wilde Short Fiction, edited by Regina M. Ponciano, wildeshortfiction.com/reviews/81.

APA

[Review of A House of Pomegranates, by O. Wilde]. (1892, February 1). Current Opinion: A Magazine of Record and Review, 9(2), 320. In R. M. Ponciano (Ed.), Wilde Short Fiction [Data set]. https://wildeshortfiction.com/reviews/81

Chicago

Review of A House of Pomegranates, by Oscar Wilde. Current Opinion: A Magazine of Record and Review 9, no. 2, February 1, 1892, 320. In Wilde Short Fiction, edited by Regina M. Ponciano. https://wildeshortfiction.com/reviews/81.

Oscar Wilde, in violent admiration of the cover of his latest book, A House of Pomegranates, says aesthetically: 'The artistic beauty of the cover of my book resides in the delicate tracing, arabesques, and massing of many coral-red lines on a ground of white ivory, the colour-effect culminating in certain high gilt notes, and being made still more pleasurable by the overlapping band of moss-green cloth that holds the book together'; then he delivers this dictum: 'A thing in Nature becomes much lovelier if it reminds us of a thing in Art, but a thing in Art gains no real beauty through reminding us of a thing in Nature'.