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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES ON THE POEMS OF 1881. The pages refer to Methueris 1907 edition. Page 21. Helas This sonnet is given in all editions of the Poems. It is included also in the various editions of The Poets and the Poetry of the {Nineteenth) Century, edited by Alfred H. Miles, and in Osrac, the Self-Sufficient, 1905, and in An timing's Love, by Stuart Young, 1906. In his notes to Our Poets (p. 55), 1894, Arthur Lynch reprints this sonnet, with the remarks: Few things in literature are so saddening as the spectacle of Oscar Wilde's career, and nowhere is this regret more profoundly expressed than in this Sonnet A remarkably well-expressed sonnet, I beg to think. In fact, as a sonnet writer, he has few superiors in the language, and it is the impression of his fine gifts and his weak fibre that has made me temper the terms of my characterisation. Page 25. Sonnet To Liberty. The first of the eight poems included under the general title of Eleutheria. A German translation by Hedwig Lachmann is given on page 90 of that writer's Oscar Wilde (Verlegt Bei Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin und Leipzig, 1904). It is entitled Sonett an die Freiheit, the first line reading: Nicht darum, weil ich hold bin deinen Sohnen, and also on page 149 in a volume of Wilde's essays on The Soul of Man, etc., by Hedwig Lachmann and Gustav Landauer. (Berlin: Karl Schnabel, 1904.) E. C. Stedman (Victorian Poets, 13th edition, page 467), says that Wilde's Poems, with all their conceits, are the fruit of no mean talent. The opening group, under the head ' Eleutheria, ' is the strongest. Page 26. Ave Imperatrix. The first version of this poem appeared in The World: A Journal for Men and Women, No. 321, August 25, 1880, pages 12, 13. AVE IMPERATRIX a poem on JEnglano. By Oscar...

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