Then suddenly the tune went false, The dancers wearied of the waltz, The shadows ceased to wheel and whirl. And down the long and silent street The dawn with silver-sandalled feet, Crept like a frightened girl. The life and works of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) have a perennial fascination for the theatre going and reading public, and it is surprising that no separate edition of the poetry has been published for decades. Malcolm Hicks provides a generous and timely selection, introduction and notes. Here is the brilliant twenty-six-year-old`s only collection of poems, which displays his sensuousness and technical precocity, with deft echoes of earlier masters. The young Wilde explores styles and forms to counteract what seemed to him the exhaustion of the poetic language current at the time. The substantial works of his later maturity-including `The Harlot`s House`, The Sphinx and the legendary Ballad of Reading Gao-are also included.
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- Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann on 4 pages
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Oscar Wilde on 4 pages
- Modern Dramatists: Oscar Wilde (Critical Heritage) by Karl Beckson in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Oscar Wilde: The Critical Heritage (The Critical Heritage Series) by Karl E. Beckson in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Bibliography of Oscar Wilde by Stuart Mason in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- Pater to Forster, 1873-1924 (Transitions) by Ruth Robbins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions by Vicki Mahaffey in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions by Vicki Mahaffey in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves by Baron Wormser on page 63, and Back Matter
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