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Selected Poems
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Selected Poems Paperback - 2002

by Oscar Wilde; Malcom Hicks (Editor)


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From the book:Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyesSee nothing save their own unlovely woe,Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, -But that the roar of thy Democracies,Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies,Mirror my wildest passions like the seaAnd give my rage a brother -! Liberty!For this sake only do thy dissonant criesDelight my discreet soul, else might all kingsBy bloody knout or treacherous cannonadesRob nations of their rights inviolateAnd I remain unmoved - and yet, and yet,These Christs that die upon the barricades,God knows it I am with them, in some things.

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The life and works of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) have a perennial fascination for the theatre going and reading public, and it is surprising that no separate edition of the poetry has been published for decades. Malcolm Hicks provides a generous and timely selection, introduction and notes. Here is the brilliant twenty-six-year-old's only collection of poems, which displays his sensuousness and technical precocity, with deft echoes of earlier masters. The young Wilde explores styles and forms to counteract what seemed to him the exhaustion of the poetic language current at the time. The substantial works of his later maturity-including 'The Harlot's House', The Sphinx and the legendary Ballad of Reading Gao-are also included.

First line

To drift with every passion till my soul

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  • Title Selected Poems
  • Author Oscar Wilde; Malcom Hicks (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 130
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date April 12, 2002
  • ISBN 9780415940825 / 0415940826
  • Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.84 x 5.94 x 0.39 in (19.91 x 15.09 x 0.99 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 921
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