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Who on earth is Harvey Jerold?

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Since I haven't found any specific books on Goodreads about Oscar Wilde's articles, I've decided to use Selected Prose instead.

And what is the meaning of this beautiful decoration which we call art? In the first place, it means value to the workman and it means the pleasure which he must necessarily take in making a beautiful thing. The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

Glory of sun and moon, let them be wrought for us by our landscape artist and be on the walls of the rooms we sit in to remind us of the undying beauty of the sunsets that fade and die, but do not let us eat our soup off them and send them down to the kitchen twice a day to be washed and scrubbed by the handmaid.

If Carver was so interested in the psyche of ordinary people leading prosaic lives, he would have been better off devoting himself to psychology than literature.