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The Poetry of Oscar Wilde

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  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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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 put to death 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.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s.

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Pages
253
Language
English
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