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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... poems of Oscar Wilde together with their textual histories ; included are 21 poems which were , for various reasons , unpublished during his lifetime . This under- taking is more significant than it initially appears , for most accounts ...
... poems of Oscar Wilde together with their textual histories ; included are 21 poems which were , for various reasons , unpublished during his lifetime . This under- taking is more significant than it initially appears , for most accounts ...
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... poem held to be an exception to this pattern of judgement is The Ballad 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 ...
... poem held to be an exception to this pattern of judgement is The Ballad 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 ...
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... poems . Between 1877 and the appearance of Poems in 1881 , he published some forty poems in Irish , American , and English periodicals . In fact , his first published poem was as early as 1875 when he had just turned 21. In the ...
... poems . Between 1877 and the appearance of Poems in 1881 , he published some forty poems in Irish , American , and English periodicals . In fact , his first published poem was as early as 1875 when he had just turned 21. In the ...
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... poets , unprofitable . Katharine Tynan , a contemporary of Wilde ( and like him a Bodley Head author ) , commented that the late nineteenth century was ' an age as stony to poetry as the ages of Chatterton and Richard Savage'.5 Finally ...
... poets , unprofitable . Katharine Tynan , a contemporary of Wilde ( and like him a Bodley Head author ) , commented that the late nineteenth century was ' an age as stony to poetry as the ages of Chatterton and Richard Savage'.5 Finally ...
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... poem to satisfy the demands of a periodical editor . ? It is certainly of a piece with other aspects of the self - fashioning which took place throughout his life - from the suppression of his Dublin accent at Oxford , his cultivation ...
... poem to satisfy the demands of a periodical editor . ? It is certainly of a piece with other aspects of the self - fashioning which took place throughout his life - from the suppression of his Dublin accent at Oxford , his cultivation ...
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