Oscar Wilde

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Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde - Poems

Beschreibung

This vintage book contains the "Poems" section of "The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde". Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was a seminal Irish author, poet, and playwright. He was the most popular playwright in London in the 1890s, and is most famous for his witty epigrams and the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray". This wonderful compendium is highly recommended for all lovers of poetry, and it would make for a worthy addition to any personal library. The poems of this collection include: ¿Hélas!¿, ¿Sonnet to Liberty¿, ¿To Milton¿, ¿Louis Napoleon¿, ¿Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgariä, ¿Quantum Mutatä, ¿Libertatis Sacra Fames¿, ¿Theoretikos¿, ¿The Garden of Eros¿, ¿Rosa Mysticä, ¿Sonnet on Approaching Italy¿, ¿San Miniato¿, etcetera. Many texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Autor

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for "gross indecency", imprisonment, and early death at age 46. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray(1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French while in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, while The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was still being performed in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry prosecuted for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men. After two more trials he was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brown Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781406782479
• ISBN-10: 1406782475
• Artikelnr.: 23245769