The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

by Wilde, Oscar

• ISBN13: 9780486270722
• ISBN10: 0486270726
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-29
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Twenty-four important works, focusing on Wilde's poetic legacy, offer important clues to themes and subjects that preoccupied this gifted writer in other works. IncludesThe Ballad of Reading Gaol,a powerful indictment of the degradation and inhumanity of prison life; "The Sphinx," "The Grave of Keats," "The Harlot's House," and 20 others.

Author Biography

Poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) remains best known for his comedies of the 1890s, including The Importance of Being Earnest, and for his tragic imprisonment and untimely death.

Table of Contents

From Poems by Oscar Wilde (1881)
Hélas!
From Subsection "Eleutheria"
To Milton
From Subsection "Rosa Mystica"
Requiescat
Vita Nuova [1877]
From Subsection "Wind Flowers"
Impression du Matin [1881]
Chanson [portion of a longer work of 1876]
From Subsection "Flowers of Gold"
Impressions [1877]
1. Les Silhouettes
2. La Fuite de la Lune
The Grave of Keats [1877]
Ballade de Marguerite [1879]
Impression de Voyage [1880]
From Subsection "Panthea"
Panthea
From Subsection "The Fourth Movement"
Impression: Le Réveillon [1877]
Apologia
Silentium Amoris
Taedium Vitae
From Subsection "The Flower of Love"
Bittersweet Love
The Sphinx (1894)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Uncollected Poems
The Harlot's House [1885]
Fantaisies Décoratives [1887]
1. Le Panneau
2. Les Ballons
Canzonet [1888]
Symphony in Yellow [1889]
In the Forest [1889]
To L.L. [Lillie Langtry] [added in the 1908 edition of Poems by Oscar Wilde]