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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde - Volume I: Poems and Poems in Prose
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This volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. It provides texts of Wilde's one-hundred and nineteen poems and poems in prose, including twenty-one never published in his lifetime, together with the publishing history of each poem, and a detailed commentary on allusions and echoes, imagery, and points of biographical interest.
368 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1,1894
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368 pages, Hardcover
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July 1, 2000 by Oxford University Press
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9780198119609
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0198119607
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English
About the author
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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
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Oscar Wilde was obsessed with flowers & Nightingales it seems.
Wilde's poems are like mini stories. I prefer shorter poetry on deeper topics. He spoke a lot about Greek mythology, war, nature, & flowers. None of those are subjects I like.
I only really ended up liking 15/94. The poems require a lot of research to understand them. I enjoyed the way the "Poems in Prose" section was done. Oscar was crafty but it looked like he had a checklist of the million things he wanted to talk about. And he tried to shove them all in lengthy poems. I starred my favorites down below.
5 stars
*Hélas
*Quia Multum Amavi
*Apologia
*The Doer of Good
4 stars
*San Miniato
*Ave Maria Gratia Plena
*Panthea
*Taedium Vitae
*On The Sale By Auction of Keats' Love Letters
*The Disciple
The Harlots House
Santa Decca
E Tenebris
Silentium Amoris
The Artists Dream or San Artysty
Wilde's poems are like mini stories. I prefer shorter poetry on deeper topics. He spoke a lot about Greek mythology, war, nature, & flowers. None of those are subjects I like.
I only really ended up liking 15/94. The poems require a lot of research to understand them. I enjoyed the way the "Poems in Prose" section was done. Oscar was crafty but it looked like he had a checklist of the million things he wanted to talk about. And he tried to shove them all in lengthy poems. I starred my favorites down below.
5 stars
*Hélas
*Quia Multum Amavi
*Apologia
*The Doer of Good
4 stars
*San Miniato
*Ave Maria Gratia Plena
*Panthea
*Taedium Vitae
*On The Sale By Auction of Keats' Love Letters
*The Disciple
The Harlots House
Santa Decca
E Tenebris
Silentium Amoris
The Artists Dream or San Artysty
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This has left me completely cold. Very sad, I think I must try to read some of the more known works of Wilde. I'm sure I'll find more interest in them
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Oscar Wilde escribió maravillas.
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I COULD NOT FIND "THE ARTIST" OR "THE MASTER" SO I HAVE TO USE THIS COLLECTION. UGH.
Anyway, the master:
Interesting but dare I say a it whiny & childish?
The artist:
Tbh, not quite sure that I understood EVERYTHING but the things I DID understand where really cool.
Anyway, the master:
Interesting but dare I say a it whiny & childish?
The artist:
Tbh, not quite sure that I understood EVERYTHING but the things I DID understand where really cool.
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Me considero fan de la estética de Wilde, y de sus obras (las que he leído). Lo que no recordaba (ni sé si lo percibí algún día) es el carácter moral/religioso de sus letras. La mayoría de estos cuentos (o poemas en prosa como le titulan) me pareció como si que estuviesen leyendo las parábolas de la Biblia (no soy fan de la Biblia pero recuerdo a las parábolas como interesantes para leer cuando era niña). Pues, no guardo apatía pero tampoco estos serían mis favoritos por que parecen predicación inspirada, típica parábola-moraleja. Basta con "El bienhechor" y el "Discípulo", y la frase "Quien entrega su sabiduría se roba así mismo" (extracto de "El maestro de la Sabiduría") para darle 4 estrellas :)
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no sé si esta es la edición correcta porque lo leí de la biblioteca nacional. (la edición que leí contenía mucha prosa bíblica y el artista y narciso)
sobre las dos estrellas, amo a wilde y su prosa es excelente, la nota se debe simplemente a la selección de poemas que giraban alrededor a dios
sobre las dos estrellas, amo a wilde y su prosa es excelente, la nota se debe simplemente a la selección de poemas que giraban alrededor a dios
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