The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in proseThis volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde , which will for the first time provide students of Wilde with scholarly and textually accurate texts of his complete oeuvre. In it, Bobby Fong and Karl Beckson provide reliable texts of Wilde's 119 poems and poems in prose, including 21 never published in his lifetime, together with the publishing history of each poem, locations of manuscripts, all known variants and emendations, and a detailed commentary on allusions and echoes, imagery, and points of biographical interest. The introduction by Ian Small, co-general editor of the Complete Works, discusses the historical context in which Wilde wrote poetry and the conditions surrounding its publication. |
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Page x
... Reading Gaol , a work which is the least representative of Wilde's poetic œuvre ( in both subject and style ) , and which appeared only at the end of his writing career . To judge Wilde's poetic achievement against that of ...
... Reading Gaol , a work which is the least representative of Wilde's poetic œuvre ( in both subject and style ) , and which appeared only at the end of his writing career . To judge Wilde's poetic achievement against that of ...
Page xii
... reading and buying public , as well as the publishing indus- try , enforced a very strong distinction between ' literary art ' and journalism , one which was based on taste , money , and the contrast between popular and élite ...
... reading and buying public , as well as the publishing indus- try , enforced a very strong distinction between ' literary art ' and journalism , one which was based on taste , money , and the contrast between popular and élite ...
Page xiii
... readers who might have encountered the poems in periodicals . To Wilde the decision in the early 1880s to put together a volume of poetry may have represented a strategy to identify and establish himself as an artist ( in his later ...
... readers who might have encountered the poems in periodicals . To Wilde the decision in the early 1880s to put together a volume of poetry may have represented a strategy to identify and establish himself as an artist ( in his later ...
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... reader for whom these critics claimed to be speaking was quite distinct : he or she was assumed to have expectations unlike those of the periodical reader ( or indeed the theatre - goer ) . In brief , Wilde's critics employed criteria ...
... reader for whom these critics claimed to be speaking was quite distinct : he or she was assumed to have expectations unlike those of the periodical reader ( or indeed the theatre - goer ) . In brief , Wilde's critics employed criteria ...
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... Reading Gaol ( 1898 ) ) , testifies to his enduring interest in formal matters , and to his impressive mastery of tech- nique . He was competent in a wide variety of lyric forms , from sonnets and ballads to the complex sixteen ...
... Reading Gaol ( 1898 ) ) , testifies to his enduring interest in formal matters , and to his impressive mastery of tech- nique . He was competent in a wide variety of lyric forms , from sonnets and ballads to the complex sixteen ...
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