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Complete Poetry Oscar Wilde

Complete Poetry By Oscar Wilde

Complete Poetry by Oscar Wilde


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This volume follows as closely as possible the chronological order of composition, highlighting autobiographical elements. The poems reveal unexpected aspects of a literary chameleon usually identified with sparkling wit and social comedy.

Complete Poetry Summary

Complete Poetry by Oscar Wilde

`Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!' 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. This book is intended for undergraduate - late nineteenth-century poetry or `Nineties' Poetry; courses on Wilde.

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GOR002078107
9780192825087
0192825089
Complete Poetry by Oscar Wilde
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
1997-05-01
232
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