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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... Head , 1925 ) , 57 ; Brendan Kennelly ( ed . ) , The Penguin Book of Irish Verse ( Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1970 ) , 38–9 ; Ian Fletcher and John Stokes , ' Oscar Wilde ' , in Anglo - Irish Literature : A Review of Research , ed ...
... Head , 1925 ) , 57 ; Brendan Kennelly ( ed . ) , The Penguin Book of Irish Verse ( Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1970 ) , 38–9 ; Ian Fletcher and John Stokes , ' Oscar Wilde ' , in Anglo - Irish Literature : A Review of Research , ed ...
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... Head in the 1890s , publishers found poetry , particularly the work of new poets , unprofitable . Katharine Tynan , a contemporary of Wilde ( and like him a Bodley Head author ) , commented that the late nineteenth century was ' an age ...
... Head in the 1890s , publishers found poetry , particularly the work of new poets , unprofitable . Katharine Tynan , a contemporary of Wilde ( and like him a Bodley Head author ) , commented that the late nineteenth century was ' an age ...
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... head . This practice was continued through Bogue's two 1882 editions as well as that of the Bodley Head edition in 1892 , despite the fact that these last three editions identify new sections in the contents page , and have new half ...
... head . This practice was continued through Bogue's two 1882 editions as well as that of the Bodley Head edition in 1892 , despite the fact that these last three editions identify new sections in the contents page , and have new half ...
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... Head ) . Instead , he reverted to his habit of publishing poems singly , although his productivity dropped as he concentrated on more profitable and successful genres , such as fiction and drama . After his average of two poems per year ...
... Head ) . Instead , he reverted to his habit of publishing poems singly , although his productivity dropped as he concentrated on more profitable and successful genres , such as fiction and drama . After his average of two poems per year ...
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... Head had been instrumental in establishing a collec- tor or connoisseur market for select editions of poetry , where the materiality of the book was as important as the text itself . The earlier success of the Bodley Head's 1892 reissue ...
... Head had been instrumental in establishing a collec- tor or connoisseur market for select editions of poetry , where the materiality of the book was as important as the text itself . The earlier success of the Bodley Head's 1892 reissue ...
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