The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume 1: Poems and Poems in Prose

ISBN-13: 9780198119609 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 368 str.

Karl Beckson; Oscar Wilde; Bobby Fong

Opis

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.

Recenzje

The editorial apparatus is meticulous and exhaustive ... As ancillary evidence for Wilde's later importance as a major cultural phenomenon, they [the poems] will reward more serious attention from scholars than they have previously received, and to that end this edition will deservedly become a standard work