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Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde, Poetry, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Contributor(s): Wilde, Oscar (Author)
ISBN: 1598182749     ISBN-13: 9781598182743
Publisher: Aegypan
OUR PRICE:   $20.66  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: June 2006
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6" W x 9" (0.66 lbs) 108 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
Stolen from Artemis that jealous maid
To please Athena, and the dappled hide
Of a tall stag who in some mountain glade
Had met the shaft; and then the herald cried,
And from the pillared precinct one by one
Went the glad Greeks well pleased that they their simple vows had done.

Long time he lay and hardly dared to breathe,
And heard the cadenced drip of spilt-out wine,
And the rose-petals falling from the wreath
As the night breezes wandered through the shrine,
And seemed to be in some entranced swoon
Till through the open roof above the full and brimming moon

Flooded with sheeny waves the marble floor,
When from his nook up leapt the venturous lad. . . .

Included in this volume -- first publihsed in 1881 -- are "Charmides" and numerous other Poems and Sonnets (as they're labelled in the table of contents). There was some controversy over the 1882 fouth edition, which abridged certain controverial parts of the title poem, doing it considerable damage. The eleioins were restored for the 1908 (and later) editions.

Contributor Bio(s): Wilde, Oscar: - "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day."