2.5

1,5

No entendí nada.

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

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

Oscar Wilde escribió maravillas.

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.

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 :)

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

'This marvelous lord of rhytmic expression.'
Oscar Wilde on Edgar Allan Poe

Oscar Wilde, you beautiful and misunderstood man... What right had the world to judge you? How terrible it is to think that you could have written more had it not been for you fall from grace.

As in most of his shorter works, Wilde's Poems in Prose are quite full Christian imagery, references, and allusions. These brief pieces are a wonderful demonstration of monsieur Wilde's masterful command of English. Oddly (or not), they are slightly reminiscent of Baudelaire's poems and prose poems...

Cuento, novela o poesía.
¿Qué importa cuando el que escribe es Oscar Wilde?
Es la belleza elevada a la enésima potencia...

I am not christian but I ended up really liking it, incredible how this man gets me every time

It continues the satiric social critique from the later stories of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" while making it more personal and condensed. Love it.