Poems (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Patterson, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1333047320 ISBN 13: 9781333047320

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Poems

It has been impossible in a little book of this kind to give more than a few of the writer's shorter poems, and it has been with feelings of regret that many verses, equally deserving of insertion, have had to be omitted.

The selection of poetry printed herein has been made from Mrs. Patterson's manuscripts by her children, who, having derived so much pleasure from the verses, feel that these may be a source of pleasure to others.

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About the Author

Oscar Wilde was born on October 16, 1854, to the Irish nationalist and writer Speranza Wilde and the doctor William Wilde. After graduating from Oxford in 1878, Wilde moved to London, where he became notorious for his sharp wit and flamboyant style of dress.

Though he was publishing plays and poems throughout the 1880s, it wasn t until the late 1880s and early 1890s that his work started to be received positively. In 1895, Oscar Wilde was tried for homosexuality and was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison. Tragically, this downfall came at the height of his career, as his plays, An Ideal Husband "and The Importance of Being Earnest, "were playing to full houses in London. He was greatly weakened by the privations of prison life, and moved to Paris after his sentence. Wilde died in a hotel room, either of syphilis or complications from ear surgery, in Paris, on November 30, 1900.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1333047320
• ISBN 13: 9781333047320
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 31