Oscar Wilde: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde

Introduction by Merlin Holland

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

THE CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION TO THE 1994 EDITION by MERLIN HOLLAND

INTRODUCTION TO THE 1966 EDITION by VYVYAN HOLLAND

THE STORIES OF OSCAR WILDE

Introduction by OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’S CRIME

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

THE SPHINX WITHOUT A SECRET

THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE

THE YOUNG KING

THE BIRTHDAY OF THE INFANTA

THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL

THE STAR-CHILD

THE HAPPY PRINCE

THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE

THE SELFISH GIANT

THE DEVOTED FRIEND

THE REMARKABLE ROCKET

THE PORTRAIT OF MR. W. H.

THE PLAYS

Introduction by TERENCE BROWN

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN

A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE

AN IDEAL HUSBAND

SALOMÉ

THE DUCHESS OF PADUA

VERA, or THE NIHILISTS

A FLORENTINE TRAGEDY

LA SAINTE COURTISANE or THE WOMAN COVERED WITH JEWELS

THE POEMS

Introduction by DECLAN KIBERD

POEMS EDITORIAL NOTE

YE SHALL BE GODS

CHORUS OF CLOUD MAIDENS

FROM SPRING DAYS TO WINTER

REQUIESCAT

SAN MINIATO

BY THE ARNO

ROME UNVISITED

LA BELLA DONNA DELLA MIA MENTE

CHANSON

UNTITLED

UNTITLED

THE DOLE OF THE KING’S DAUGHTER

LOVE SONG

TRISTITIAE

THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE

HEART’S YEARNINGS

THE LITTLE SHIP

ΘPHNΩIΔIA

LOTUS LAND

DÉSESPOIR

LOTUS LEAVES

UNTITLED

A FRAGMENT FROM THE AGAMEMNON OF AESCHYLOS

A VISION

SONNET ON APPROACHING ITALY

SONNET

IMPRESSION DE VOYAGE

THE THEATRE AT ARGOS

URBS SACRA AETERNA

THE GRAVE OF KEATS

SONNET

EASTER DAY

SONNET

ITALIA

VITA NUOVA

E TENEBRIS

QUANTUM MUTATA

TO MILTON

AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA

WASTED DAYS

THE GRAVE OF SHELLEY

SANTA DECCA

THEORETIKOS

AMOR INTELLECTUALIS

AT VERONA

RAVENNA

MAGDALEN WALKS

THE BURDEN OF ITYS

THEOCRITUS

NOCTURNE

ENDYMION

CHARMIDES

BALLADE DE MARGUERITE

LA BELLE GABRIELLE

HUMANITAD

ATHANASIA

THE NEW HELEN

PANTHEA

PHÈDRE

QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA

LOUIS NAPOLEON

MADONNA MIA

ROSES AND RUE

PORTIA

APOLOGIA

QUIA MULTUM AMAVI

SILENTIUM AMORIS

HER VOICE

MY VOICE

ΓΛYKYΠIKPOΣ EPΩΣ

THE GARDEN OF EROS

AVE IMPERATRIX

PAN

THE ARTIST’S DREAM OR SEN ARTYSTY

LIBERTATIS SACRA FAMES

SONNET TO LIBERTY

TAEDIUM VITAE

FABIEN DEI FRANCHI

SERENADE

CAMMA

IMPRESSION DU MATIN

IN THE GOLD ROOM

IMPRESSIONS

IMPRESSION

HÉLAS!

TO V.F.

TO M. B. J.

IMPRESSIONS

LE JARDIN DES TUILERIES

THE HARLOT’S HOUSE

FANTAISIES DÉCORATIVES

UNDER THE BALCONY

TO MY WIFE

ON THE SALE BY AUCTION OF KEATS’ LOVE LETTERS

THE NEW REMORSE

CANZONET

WITH A COPY OF ‘A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES’

SYMPHONY IN YELLOW

LA DAME JAUNE

REMORSE

IN THE FOREST

THE SPHINX

THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL

POEMS IN PROSE

THE ARTIST

THE DOER OF GOOD

THE DISCIPLE

THE MASTER

THE HOUSE OF JUDGMENT

THE TEACHER OF WISDOM

ESSAYS, SELECTED JOURNALISM, LECTURES AND LETTERS

Introduction by MERLIN HOLLAND

THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

THE DECORATIVE ARTS

PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA

MRS LANGTRY AS HESTER GRAZEBROOK

WOMAN’S DRESS

MR WHISTLER’S TEN O’CLOCK

DINNERS AND DISHES

HAMLET AT THE LYCEUM

OLIVIA AT THE LYCEUM

A HANDBOOK TO MARRIAGE

BALZAC IN ENGLISH

A RIDE THROUGH MOROCCO

THE AMERICAN INVASION

TWO BIOGRAPHIES OF KEATS

ARISTOTLE AT AFTERNOON TEA

MR MORRIS ON TAPESTRY

LONDON MODELS

DE PROFUNDIS

TWO LETTERS TO THE DAILY CHRONICLE

THE DECAY OF LYING

PEN, PENCIL AND POISON

THE CRITIC AS ARTIST

THE TRUTH OF MASKS

THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM

THE RISE OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM

A FEW MAXIMS FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF THE OVER-EDUCATED

PHRASES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR THE USE OF THE YOUNG

APPENDIX A: CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

APPENDIX B: ORDER OF POEMS (1882)

APPENDIX C: LIST OF ORIGINAL DEDICATIONS IN WILDE’S PUBLISHED WORKS

APPENDIX D: INDEX OF FIRST LINES OF POEMS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Copyright

About the Publisher

THE CONTRIBUTORS

Owen Dudley Edwards, a Dubliner, was initially trained in historical research by Sir Rupert Hart-Davis, who was then editing The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1962). His own books include The Fireworks of Oscar Wilde (1989), and he has a biography of Oscar Wilde in preparation. He is now Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh, and is also a writer, broadcaster and theatre critic, whose first play will be staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1994.

Terence Brown holds a personal chair in the School of English in Trinity College, Dublin. He is a Fellow of Trinity College and also a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He has written and edited many books. Among his publications are Louis MacNeice: Sceptical Vision (1975), Northern Voices: Poets from Ulster (1975), Ireland: a Social and Cultural History (1981, 2nd edition 1985), and Ireland’s Literature: Selected Essays (1986). He has recently published an edition of James Joyce’s Dubliners (1992), was a contributing editor of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1992), and is currently at work on a book on Yeats. He has lectured on Anglo-Irish Literature in many parts of the world.

Declan Kiberd lectures in Anglo-Irish Literature at University College, Dublin. He is author of Synge and the Irish Language (1979, second edition 1993) and Men and Feminism in Modern Literature (1985). He edited the section on Wilde in the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991) and has lectured on the author in more than fifteen countries. Among his other scholarly commentaries are The Students’ Annotated Ulysses (Penguin 1992) and Anglo-Irish Attitudes (Derry, 1984).

Merlin Holland, son of Vyvyan Holland and grandson of Oscar Wilde, writes, lectures and broadcasts regularly on all aspects of Wilde’s life and works. For twenty-five years he has been in the unique position, through having to administer the few remaining copyrights in Wilde’s writings (mostly letters and unpublished fragmentary manuscripts), of being in close touch with the latest academic research while presenting his grandfather to a wider general audience. He is the wine-correspondent of Country Life.

After Wilde’s conviction, his wife, Constance, and their sons were forced to change their name to Holland after being refused accommodation at a Swiss hotel. The family has never reverted to the name Wilde.

INTRODUCTION TO THE 1994 EDITION

by

MERLIN HOLLAND

At an international conference on Wilde in May 1993, a highly respected academic and specialist in Anglo-Irish literature put to his audience the question: ‘Is Oscar Wilde really a great writer?’ I suspect that his own mind had already been made up, for he added by way of a guideline, ‘Why do so many of those who study his works end up by calling him “Oscar” in a rather over-familiar fashion?’, as if an author worthy of serious study should make himself less accessible and behave with somewhat more decorum. It is a question which his critics have been asking repeatedly for a hundred years and for which there still seems to be no satisfactory answer.