Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. His talent was prodigious: the author of brilliant social comedies, fairy stories, critical dialogues, poems, and a novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.In addition to Dorian Gray, this volume represents all these genres, including such works as Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest, 'The Happy Prince', 'The Critic as Artist', and 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. This volume includes all Wildes plays from his early tragedy Vera to the controversial Salome and the little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde's poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his only novel - to give the essence of his work and thinking.Oscar Wilde's dramatic private life has sometimes threatened to overshadow his great literary achievements. This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. 1 The Grave of Keats 2 Sonnet to Liberty 3 Her Voice 4 The Ballad of Reading Gaol 5 Requiescat 6 On the Sale By Auction of Keats’ Love Letters 7 The Garden of Eros 8 A Vision 9 Apologia 10 Magdalen Walks The Grave of Keats Oscar Wilde was a lover of John Keats’ poetry and referred to him in several of his poems, including another on this list.
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