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Wilde Oscar - Complete Poetry - Paperback
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Description: ` 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. About THE Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up - to - date bibliographies for further study and much more.
Title: Complete Poetry
Author(s): Wilde Oscar, Murray, Isobel (Senior Lecturer In English, Senior Lecturer In English, University Of Aberdeen)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199554706
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 8/31/2009
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
Description: ` 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. About THE Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up - to - date bibliographies for further study and much more.
Title: Complete Poetry
Author(s): Wilde Oscar, Murray, Isobel (Senior Lecturer In English, Senior Lecturer In English, University Of Aberdeen)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199554706
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 8/31/2009
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
