The Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde Contributor(s): Thomas, Dylan (Author), Minogue, Sally (Introduction by), Minogue, Sally (Notes by) |
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ISBN: 1853264539 ISBN-13: 9781853264535 Publisher: Wordsworth Editions OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2000 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.9" W x 7.6" (0.30 lbs) 224 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. WILDE, GLAMOROUS AND NOTORIUS, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story of his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wilde's verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet. |