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Oscar Wilde's Shades of "Gray"
From: Irish Voice
Date: 20010626
Author:Roche, Jenny
Roche, Jenny
Irish Voice
06-26-2001
Oscar Wilde's Shades of "Gray"
The Man Who Was Dorian Gray
By Jerusha Hull McCormack
St. Martin's Press /$24.95 / 353 pages
Book Review by Jenny Roche
THE Man Who Was Dorian Gray is the second book Jerusha Hull McCormack has
written about John Grey, an 1890's minor poet and the inspiration for Oscar
Wilde's Dorian Gray.
A professor of English at UCD, Hull McCormack explains in her preface that
her interest in Grey began with a doctoral dissertation which grew into a
biography called John Grey: Poet, Dandy and Priest (1991). But she did not
feel that work succeeded in ...
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