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

This volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde , which will for the first time provide students of Wilde with scholarly and textually accurate texts of his complete oeuvre. In it, Bobby Fong and Karl Beckson provide reliable texts of Wilde's 119 poems and poems in prose, including 21 never published in his lifetime, together with the publishing history of each poem, locations of manuscripts, all known variants and emendations, and a detailed commentary on allusions and echoes, imagery, and points of biographical interest. The introduction by Ian Small, co-general editor of the Complete Works, discusses the historical context in which Wilde wrote poetry and the conditions surrounding its publication.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Complete Works Oscar Wilde
Release date:	October 2000
First published:	October 2000
Authors:	Oscar Wilde
Editors:	Bobby Fong (Dean of Faculty and Professor of English) • Karl Beckson (Professor of English)
Introduction by:	Ian Small
Dimensions:	223 x 143 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-811960-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	0-19-811960-7
Barcode:	9780198119609

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