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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... hand - made paper , and the parchment covers . There is some evidence that in the early 1880s Wilde had overestimated the nature of the exposure and reputation he had achieved as a poet in the English periodical press , and had ...
... hand - made paper , and the parchment covers . There is some evidence that in the early 1880s Wilde had overestimated the nature of the exposure and reputation he had achieved as a poet in the English periodical press , and had ...
Page xviii
... hand- made paper with uncut edges , and the print was in three inks : red , 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 ...
... hand- made paper with uncut edges , and the print was in three inks : red , 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 ...
Page xix
... hand , a work such as Katharine Tynan's Cuckoo Songs ( 1894 ) , which had a print - run comparable to that of Salomé , was produced more economically ( at 1s . 134d . per copy rather than Salomé's 3s . 74d . ) and consequently was sold ...
... hand , a work such as Katharine Tynan's Cuckoo Songs ( 1894 ) , which had a print - run comparable to that of Salomé , was produced more economically ( at 1s . 134d . per copy rather than Salomé's 3s . 74d . ) and consequently was sold ...
Page xxvii
... hand ( we do not have page proofs , which might have included further revisions by Wilde ) . Still , given Wilde's reliance on publishers ' corrections of his acci- dentals and his own tendency to revise in proof , all of the ...
... hand ( we do not have page proofs , which might have included further revisions by Wilde ) . Still , given Wilde's reliance on publishers ' corrections of his acci- dentals and his own tendency to revise in proof , all of the ...
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... hand ) , and generally legible , even in desultory jottings ( the few excep- tions are indicated as illegible in the textual footnotes ) . Titled manuscripts , and untitled manuscripts of more than a stanza , which do not correspond to ...
... hand ) , and generally legible , even in desultory jottings ( the few excep- tions are indicated as illegible in the textual footnotes ) . Titled manuscripts , and untitled manuscripts of more than a stanza , which do not correspond to ...
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