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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... green cloth with an embossed gold motif on its front ; the endpapers have a green leaf decoration . 13 The fourth and fifth editions have the same title - page as his first three , except for the lines ' FOURTH EDITION ' or ' FIFTH ...
... green cloth with an embossed gold motif on its front ; the endpapers have a green leaf decoration . 13 The fourth and fifth editions have the same title - page as his first three , except for the lines ' FOURTH EDITION ' or ' FIFTH ...
Page xviii
... green , and black , with elaborate illustrations , again by Ricketts . Some pages had only 2 , 4 , or 5 lines of text , all of which was in small capitals . Unlike Poems ( 1881 ) , which seems to have been directed towards a serious ...
... green , and black , with elaborate illustrations , again by Ricketts . Some pages had only 2 , 4 , or 5 lines of text , all of which was in small capitals . Unlike Poems ( 1881 ) , which seems to have been directed towards a serious ...
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... green : the small bulk of the text and unusual length of the lines necessitated quite a peculiar arrangement of the text . ' Charles Ricketts , Defence of the Revival of Printing ( 1909 ) ; quoted in Mason , 398 . 18 James G. Nelson ...
... green : the small bulk of the text and unusual length of the lines necessitated quite a peculiar arrangement of the text . ' Charles Ricketts , Defence of the Revival of Printing ( 1909 ) ; quoted in Mason , 398 . 18 James G. Nelson ...
Page xxiv
... green mist ' in the first edition of Poems , to ' sea - green vest ' in the 1882 edition . Another early poem , ' Rome Unvisited ' ( No. 7 ) , shows a slightly different pattern of revision ( one found also in the plays ) where Wilde's ...
... green mist ' in the first edition of Poems , to ' sea - green vest ' in the 1882 edition . Another early poem , ' Rome Unvisited ' ( No. 7 ) , shows a slightly different pattern of revision ( one found also in the plays ) where Wilde's ...
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... green , O merrily the throstle sings ! I sought , amid the tangled sheen , Love whom mine eyes had never seen , O the glad dove has golden wings ! Between the blossoms red and white , O merrily the throstle sings ! My love first came ...
... green , O merrily the throstle sings ! I sought , amid the tangled sheen , Love whom mine eyes had never seen , O the glad dove has golden wings ! Between the blossoms red and white , O merrily the throstle sings ! My love first came ...
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