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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. The religious drama of his
romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in
his renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexual
desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his
day, observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final
masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story of
his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. This
edition of Wilde's verse presents the full range of his achievement
as a poet.