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Theoretikos

Author: Oscar Wilde

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Extent of text: 1013 words

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Notes

There is not as yet an authoritative edition of Wilde's works.

Sources

Select editions
1. The writings of Oscar Wilde (London; New York: A. R. Keller & Co. 1907) 15 vols.
2. Robert Ross (ed), The First Collected Edition of the Works of Oscar Wilde (London: Methuen & Co. 1908). 15 vols. Reprinted Dawsons: Pall Mall 1969.
3. Complete works of Oscar Wilde (Glasgow: HarperCollins, 1994).

Select bibliography
1. 'Notes for a bibliography of Oscar Wilde', Books and book-plates (A quarterly for collectors) 5, no. 3 (April 1905) 170-183.
2. Hesketh Pearson, A Life of Oscar Wilde (London 1946).
3. Vyvyan Beresford Holland, Oscar Wilde: a pictorial biography (London: Thames & Hudson 1960).
4. Stuart Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (London: E. G. Richards 1907). Also pubd. New York 1908, London 1914 in 2 vols. Repr. of 1914 edition: New York: Haskell House 1972.
5. Richard Ellmann; John Espey, Oscar Wilde: two approaches: papers read at a Clark Library seminar, April 17, 1976 (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California 1977).
6. H. Montgomery Hyde, Oscar Wilde: a biography (London: Methuen 1977).
7. E. H. Mikhail, Oscar Wilde: an annotated bibliography of criticism (London: Macmillan 1978). Also pubd. Totowa NJ: Rowman & Littlefield 1978.
8. Rupert Hart-Davis (ed), Selected letters of Oscar Wilde (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1979).
9. Richard Ellmann (ed), The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde (Chicago 1982).
10. Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde at Oxford: a lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on March 1, 1983 (Washington, DC: Library of Congress 1984).
11. Rupert Hart-Davis (ed), More letters of Oscar Wilde (London: Murray 1985).
12. Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde: a biography (London: Hamilton 1987).
13. Horst Schroeder, Additions and corrections to Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde (Braunschweig: H. Schroeder 1989).
14. Norman Page, An Oscar Wilde chronology (London: Macmillan 1991).
15. Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde, including My memories of Oscar Wilde, by George Bernard Shaw and an introductory note by Lyle Blair (London: Robinson, 1992).
16. Thomas A. Mikolyzk, Oscar Wilde: an annotated bibliography (Westport CT: Greenwood Press 1993). Bibliographies and indexes in world literature, 38.
17. Juliet Gardiner, Oscar Wilde: a life in letters, writings and wit (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1995).
18. Andrew McDonnell, Oscar Wilde at Oxford: an annotated catalogue of Wilde manuscripts and related items at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, including many hitherto unpublished letters, photographs and illustrations (A. McDonnell 1996). Limited edition of 170 copies.
19. Richard Pine, The thief of reason: Oscar Wilde and modern Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996).
20. Karl E. Beckson, The Oscar Wilde encyclopedia (New York: AMS Press 1998). AMS Studies in the nineteenth century 18.

The edition used in the digital edition
1. Oscar Wilde Theoretikos in The Works of Oscar Wilde. , London, Galley Press (1987) page 700

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Created: By Oscar Wilde (1854–1900). (1881)

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Language: [EN] The text is in English.

Language: [HE] Title of poem in Greek.

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• (2009-10-27)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

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• (2005-08-25)

  Julianne Nyhan (ed.)

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  Margaret Lantry (ed.)

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  Margaret Lantry (ed.)

• Text proofed; structural mark-up improved.
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  Margaret Lantry (ed.)

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  Donnchadh Ó Corráin (ed.)

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Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E850003-034

Theoretikos: Author: Oscar Wilde

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1. • 1] This mighty empire hath but feet of clay
     2] Of all its ancient chivalry and might
     3] Our little island is forsaken quite:
     4] Some enemy hath stolen its crown of bay,
     5] And from its hills that voice hath passed away
     6] Which spake of Freedom: O come out of it,
     7] Come out of it, my Soul, thou art not fit
     8] For this vile traffic-house, where day by day
   • 9] Wisdom and reverence are sold at mart,
     10] And the rude people rage with ignorant cries
     11] Against an heritage of centuries.
     12] It mars my calm: wherefore in dreams of Art
     13] And loftiest culture I would stand apart,
     14] Neither for God, nor for his enemies.