The Poetry of Oscar Wilde
Best known as a wit and a playwright, Wilde began his career as a poet, and this volume gathers the lyric work of his early Poems alongside the very different piece that closed his writing life. The early verse is lush and aesthetic, steeped in classical myth, Catholic ritual, and the beauty of Italy and Greece. The Ballad of Reading Gaol, written after his imprisonment, strips all that away for a plain, haunted account of a hanged man and the shared guilt of everyone who watches. Set together, they trace the distance between the young aesthete and the broken, compassionate voice of his last years. This free PDF and EPUB edition brings the poems together.
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Oscar Wilde free PDF and EPub books download from here. He was a distinguished Irish writer, renowned for his work as a poet and dramatist. He rose to prominence in the early 1890s as one of London’s most popular playwrights. His most enduring works include…
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| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dedication: To My Wife | 1:26 | |
| 2 | Ravenna | 28:04 | |
| 3 | Ave Imperatrix | 8:17 | |
| 4 | To Milton | 1:27 | |
| 5 | Louis Napoleon | 1:38 | |
| 6 | Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria | 1:32 | |
| 7 | Sonnet on Approaching Italy | 1:29 | |
| 8 | San Miniato | 1:23 | |
| 9 | Italia | 1:34 | |
| 10 | Sonnet Written in Holy Week at Genoa | 1:33 | |
| 11 | Rome Unvisited | 4:07 | |
| 12 | Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel | 1:31 | |
| 13 | Easter Day | 1:31 | |
| 14 | E Tenebris | 1:31 | |
| 15 | Madonna Mia | 1:27 | |
| 16 | Endymion | 3:01 | |
| 17 | Magdalen Walks | 2:12 | |
| 18 | Theocritus, a Villanelle | 1:28 | |
| 19 | The Grave of Keats | 1:30 | |
| 20 | The Grave of Shelley | 1:29 | |
| 21 | By the Arno | 1:53 | |
| 22 | Phèdre | 1:29 | |
| 23 | Sonnets written at the Lyceum Theatre (I.Portia; II.Queen Henrietta Maria; III.Camma) | 4:16 | |
| 24 | At Verona | 1:29 | |
| 25 | On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters | 1:29 | |
| 26 | The Harlot's House | 2:51 |
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