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Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

Public domain audiobook

Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

by Robert Baldwin Ross, Oscar Wilde

English· 01:38:02· 26 chapters
This is a selection of the early poetry of Oscar Wilde, selected by Robert Ross. As he puts it, "It is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde’s early verses may be of interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always popular Ballad of Reading Gaol, also included in this volume. The poems were first collected by their author when he was twenty-six years old, and though never, until recently, well received by the critics, have survived the test of NINE editions. Readers will be able to make for themselves the obvious and striking contrasts between these first and last phases of Oscar Wilde’s literary activity. The intervening period was devoted almost entirely to dramas, prose, fiction, essays, and criticism." - Summary by Carolin and Robert Ross

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol, I

    05:33
  2. Chapter 2

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol, II

    04:45
  3. Chapter 3

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol, III

    12:22
  4. Chapter 4

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol, IV

    07:46
  5. Chapter 5

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol, V

    06:02
  6. Chapter 6

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol, VI

    01:20
  7. Chapter 7

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Shorter Version), I

    04:47
  8. Chapter 8

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Shorter Version), II

    02:24
  9. Chapter 9

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Shorter Version), III

    06:47
  10. Chapter 10

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Shorter Version), IV

    05:58
  11. Chapter 11

    Ave Imperatrix

    06:24
  12. Chapter 12

    To My Wife (with a copy of my poems)

    00:39
  13. Chapter 13

    Magdalen Walks

    02:00
  14. Chapter 14

    Theocritus - a Villanelle

    00:58
  15. Chapter 15

    Greece

    01:00
  16. Chapter 16

    Portia (to Ellen Terry)

    01:08
  17. Chapter 17

    Fabien Dei Franchi (to Henry Irving)

    01:15
  18. Chapter 18

    Phèdre (to Sarah Bernhardt)

    01:10
  19. Chapter 19

    On Hearing The Dies Iræ Sung In The Sistine Chapel

    01:10
  20. Chapter 20

    Ave Maria Gratia Plena

    01:11
  21. Chapter 21

    Libertatis Sacra Fames

    01:11
  22. Chapter 22

    Roses and Rue

    03:05
  23. Chapter 23

    From ‘The Garden of Eros’

    06:17
  24. Chapter 24

    The Harlot’s House

    01:58
  25. Chapter 25

    From ‘The Burden of Itys’

    07:03
  26. Chapter 26

    Flower of Love

    03:49