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Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story of his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wilde's verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet.
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Oscar the poet,
This review is from: The Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) (Paperback)
If your someone who wants the poems of Oscar and nothing else then this needs to be bought. But if you are planning on buying more of his other work then i suggest the complete works of Wilde, it's value for money.
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This review is from: The Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) (Paperback)
I was a bit disappointed with the content but overall I love Oscar Wilde's writings and it is just nice to have one of his poetry collections anyway. The poems' subjects are very much about the era and the politics he was part of and I guess I was looking for more insight on how he viewed life in general. But all in all it is a very good book and those readers who are interested in that sort of poetry will love it.
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