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Complete poetry / Oscar Wilde ; edited by Isobel Murray.

Title
Complete poetry / Oscar Wilde ; edited by Isobel Murray.
Author
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Murray, Isobel
Description
xviii, 212 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
  • A powerful poem of universal guilt and a protest against capital punishment, The Ballad of Reading Gaol is Wilde's best-known poem, yet it is quite unlike the rest of his poetry. At Oxford Wilde discarded the passion and politics of his mother's Irish nationalistic anti-famine poetry and opted to follow an English Romantic tradition, paying tribute to Keats, Swinburne, and the Pre-Raphaelites. Admiration of French masters gradually led to his writing Impressionist, even decadent poems and his collection Poems (1881) brought accusations of obscenity and plagiarism as well as scathing reviews. Unabashed, Wilde revised and reprinted his final 'Author's Edition' in 1892, by which time he was the successful author of fiction, criticism, and Lady Windermere's Fan.
  • This volume follows as closely as possible the chronological order of composition, highlighting autobiographical elements including the young Wilde's conflicting attitudes to Greece and Rome, pagan and Christian, and his fluctuating attraction to Roman Catholicism. The Appendix shows Wilde's original ordering, constructed with great care around a 'musical' arrangement of themes. The poems reveal unexpected aspects of a literary chameleon usually identified with sparkling wit and social comedy.
Series Statement
The world's classics
Uniform Title
  • Poems
  • World's classics
Alternative Title
Poems
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Chorus of Cloud-Maidens -- From Spring Days to Winter -- Requiescat -- San Miniato -- By the Arno -- Rome Unvisited -- La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente -- Chanson -- The Dole of the King's Daughter -- [actual symbol not reproducible] -- The True Knowledge -- [actual symbol not reproducible] -- Lotus Leaves -- A Fragment from the Agamemnon of Aeschylos -- A Vision -- Sonnet on Approaching Italy -- Sonnet Written in Holy Week at Genoa -- Impression de Voyage -- The Theatre at Argos -- Urbs Sacra AEterna -- The Grave of Keats -- Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria -- Easter Day -- Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel -- Italia -- Vita Nuova -- E Tenebris -- Quantum Mutata -- To Milton -- Ave Maria Plena Gratia -- Wasted Days -- The Grave of Shelley -- Santa Decca -- Theoretikos -- Amor Intellectualis -- At Verona -- Ravenna -- Magdalen Walks -- The Burden of Itys -- Theocritus: A Villanelle -- Endymion -- Charmides -- Ballade de Marguerite.
ISBN
0192825089
LCCN
^^^96041420^
OCLC
  • 35292914
  • SCSB-10507394
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library