The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume I: Poems and Poems in Prose

Wilde, Oscar, and Fong, Bobby (Editor), and Beckson, Karl (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0198119607 / ISBN 13: 9780198119609

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000

About this Item

Complete Works Oscar Wilde; Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Audience: Professional and scholarly. Fair. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Library stamps blacked out along textblock edges. Library labels and card pocket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume I: Poems and Poems in Prose
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198119607
• ISBN 13: 9780198119609
• Binding: Hard cover

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Synopsis

This volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. It provides texts of Wilde's one-hundred and nineteen poems and poems in prose, including twenty-one never published in his lifetime, together with the publishing history of each poem, and a detailed commentary on allusions and echoes, imagery, and points of biographical interest.

About the Author

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was a successful playwright of his day. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in 1891. Bobby Fong is at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Karl Beckson is at Brooklyn College, CUNY.