Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde
by Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Methuen 1919
Number of pages: 184
Description:
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. This edition of Wilde's verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet.
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