The Poetry of Oscar Wilde (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Complete 120+ Poems, Ballads, Sonnets & Other Verses: The Ballad Of Reading Gaol, The Sphinx…By Oscar Wilde
Length6h 12m
About this audiobook
Gathering the lyrical, dramatic, and occasional verse of Oscar Wilde, The Poetry of Oscar Wilde reveals a writer whose poems are far more than ornaments to his better-known plays and fiction. From classical reverie and Renaissance colour to devotional unrest and the stark moral music of The Ballad of Reading Gaol, the collection traces Wilde's movement from high Aestheticism toward a chastened, modern sympathy. Its style is musical, allusive, and pictorial, drawing on Keats, Swinburne, French Decadence, and Victorian medievalism while testing the limits of art-for-art's-sake. Wilde (1854–1900), born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College and Oxford, was formed by classical learning, Walter Pater's aesthetic philosophy, and a society that both celebrated and punished theatrical self-fashioning. His poems reflect the brilliant public lecturer and dramatist, but also the exile, prisoner, and spiritual sufferer whose disgrace sharpened his understanding of cruelty, beauty, and repentance. This volume is recommended to readers seeking the full range of Wilde's imagination: not only wit and paradox, but sensuous craft, historical memory, and tragic moral insight.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length6 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 27, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26Ave Imperatrix
2Introduction
27To Milton
3Author Biography
28Louis Napoleon
4Historical Context
29Sonnet
5Synopsis (Selection)
30Quantum Mutata
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6Ye Shall Be Gods
31Libertatis Sacra Fames
7Ravenna
32Theoretikos
8The True Knowledge
33Flowers of Gold
9A Lament
34The Grave of Keats
10Wasted Days
35Theocritus
11Désespoir
36In the Gold Room
12Lotus Leaves
37Ballade De Marguerite
13Impressions
38The Dole of the King’s Daughter
14Under the Balcony
39Love Song
15A Fragment
40Tristitiae
16Le Jardin Des Tuileries
41Amor Intellectualis
17On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters
42Santa Decca
18The New Remorse
43A Vision
19An Inscription
44Impression De Voyage
20The Harlot’s House
45The Grave of Shelley
21The Burden of Itys
46By the Arno
22Charmides
47From Spring Days to Winter
23Eleutheria
48Flower or Love
24Heart’s Yearnings
49The Fourth Movement
25The Little Ship
50Impression Le Reveillon
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