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This paper examines the cross-fertilization between different art forms in two of Oscar Wilde's city lyrics: 'Impression du Matin' (1881) and "Symphony in Yellow" (1889). These impressionistic poems epitomise Wilde's synaesthetic sensibility and transformative intertextuality whereby the poet translates his visual and aural experiences into poetry. The paper also investigates the functions of intermediality in Wilde's aesthetic and ideological standpoint, and demonstrates how the Wildean dandy figure, aligned with the Baudelairean "painter of modern life", conveys his perception of metropolitan modernity in these two poems of intermedial significance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]