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Complete Poetry
Oscar Wilde
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Description for Complete Poetry
Paperback. First published as a World's classics paperback in 1997. Editor(s): Murray, Isobel. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
`Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!' A powerful poem of universal guilt and a protest against capital punishment, The Ballad of Reading Gaol is Wilde's best-known poem, yet it is quite unlike the rest of his poetry. At Oxford Wilde discarded the passion and politics of his mother's Irish nationalistic anti-famine poetry and opted to ... Read more
`Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!' A powerful poem of universal guilt and a protest against capital punishment, The Ballad of Reading Gaol is Wilde's best-known poem, yet it is quite unlike the rest of his poetry. At Oxford Wilde discarded the passion and politics of his mother's Irish nationalistic anti-famine poetry and opted to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199554706
SKU
9780199554706
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About Oscar Wilde
Isobel Murray is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. She has edited four previous editions of Wilde's work for OUP, including Oxford Authors, Oscar Wilde, and published mant articles on his work.
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