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To My Wife
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Extent of text: 966 words
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College Road, Cork, Irelandhttp://www.ucc.ie/celt (1997) (2010) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E850003-101
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Notes
There is not as yet an authoritative edition of Wilde's works.
Sources
Select editions- The writings of Oscar Wilde (London; New York: A. R. Keller & Co. 1907) 15 vols.
- Robert Ross (ed), The First Collected Edition of the Works of Oscar Wilde (London: Methuen & Co. 1908). 15 vols. Reprinted Dawsons: Pall Mall 1969.
- Complete works of Oscar Wilde (Glasgow: HarperCollins 1994).
Select bibliography- 'Notes for a bibliography of Oscar Wilde', Books and book-plates (A quarterly for collectors) 5, no. 3 (April 1905), 170183.
- Karl E. Beckson, The Oscar Wilde encyclopedia (New York: AMS Press 1998). AMS Studies in the nineteenth century 18.
- Richard Ellmann (ed), The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde (Chicago 1982).
- 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).
- Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde at Oxford: a lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on March 1, 1983 (Washington, DC: Library of Congress 1984).
- Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde: a biography (London: Hamilton 1987).
- Juliet Gardiner, Oscar Wilde: a life in letters, writings and wit (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1995).
- Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde, including My memories of Oscar Wilde, by George Bernard Shaw and an introductory note by Lyle Blair (London: Robinson, 1992).
- Rupert Hart-Davis (ed), Selected letters of Oscar Wilde (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1979).
- Rupert Hart-Davis (ed), More letters of Oscar Wilde (London: Murray 1985).
- Vyvyan Beresford Holland, Oscar Wilde: a pictorial biography (London: Thames & Hudson 1960).
- H. Montgomery Hyde, Oscar Wilde: a biography (London: Methuen 1977).
- 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an annotated catalogue of Wilde manuscripts and related items at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, including many hitherto unpublished letters, photographs and illustrations (A. McDonnell 1996).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.
- 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.
- E. H. Mikhail, Oscar Wilde: an annotated bibliography of criticism (London: Macmillan 1978). Also pubd. Totowa NJ: Rowman & Littlefield 1978.
- Thomas A. Mikolyzk, Oscar Wilde: an annotated bibliography (Westport CT: Greenwood Press 1993). Bibliographies and indexes in world literature, 38.
- Norman Page, An Oscar Wilde chronology (London: Macmillan 1991).
- Hesketh Pearson, A Life of Oscar Wilde (London 1946).
- Richard Pine, The thief of reason: Oscar Wilde and modern Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996).
- Horst Schroeder, Additions and corrections to Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde (Braunschweig: H. Schroeder 1989).
The edition used in the digital edition- Oscar Wilde To My Wife in The Works of Oscar Wilde. , London, Galley Press (1987) page 799
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Created: By Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
(1881)
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Revision History
- (2010-12-01)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- File updated; conversion script run; new wordcount made.
- (2009-10-27)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- Keywords added.
- (2005-08-25)
Julianne Nyhan (ed.)
- Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion
- (2005-08-04T14:29:20+0100)
Peter Flynn (conversion)
- Converted to XML
- (1997-10-24)
Margaret Lantry (ed.)
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Margaret Lantry (ed.)
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Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E850003-101
To My Wife: Author: Oscar Wilde
p.799
with a copy of my poems
- 1] I can write no stately proem
2] As a prelude to my lay;
3] From a poet to a poem
4] I would dare to say.
- 5] For if of these fallen petals
6] One to you seem fair,
7] Love will waft it till it settles
8] On your hair.
- 9] And when wind and winter harden
10] All the loveless land,
11] It will whisper of the garden,
12] You will understand.