Search Results: ravenna by wilde oscar

Paperback. Very Good.

Methuen and co ltd London 15th édition hardcover 320 pages fine édition nice pages very good shape text in english

Independently published, 2020-05-03. Paperback. Used: Good.

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

Independently published, 2020-05-03. Paperback. Used:Good.

G.P. Putnam's Sons. No DJ. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1920.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920-01-01. Acceptable. Name and date to first inner page. Pages have been annotated. The spine is discoloured. There is creasing/wear to the cover.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

New York : C.N. Potter : Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1982, 1982. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st American edtion, 1st printing ; 487 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm ; ISBN: 0517547457; 9780517547458; National Library: 014878580 LCCN: 82-12196 ; LC: PR5812; Dewey: 828/.809 ; OCLC: 8587824 ; purple cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Poems -- Requiescat - Ravenna -- Wasted days -- Madonna mia -- Sonnet to liberty -- The arlot's ome -- On the sale by auction of Keat's love letters -- The new remorse -- To my wife, with a copy of my poems -- The Sphinx -- The ballad of Reading Gaol -- Poems in prose -- The disciple -- The artist -- Prose fiction -- Lord Arthur Savile's crime -- The happy prince -- The nightmare and the rose -- The remarkable rocket -- The selfish giant -- The birthday of the Infanta -- The picture of Dorian gray -- Plays -- Lady Windermere's fan -- Salome -- The importance of being Earnest -- The Gribsby episode -- Lectures and essays -- The Irish poets… Read More

Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878. First Edition. Sewn binding. Very good +. Octavo, 16pp. First and only issue, with the Oxford crest on the front wrapper and title page (there were pirated editions that lacked these). A nice, sound copy, internally lovely, with the original grey-green wrappers expertly backed onto sympathetic archival paper. Overall very good or better. A fragile publication, and among the most elusive of Wilde volumes. The Newdigate Prize, awarded since 1806, is given to the best composition in English verse by an undergraduate student at Oxford. A strong effort right out of the gate from the short-lived but highly influential Anglo-Irish writer. Mason 301.

London: Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878. Very good in original gray-green printed wrappers which are a bit browned at edges and with a few small chips. Now housed in a custom chemise and green morocco-backed slipcase.. First Edition. With crest on wrapper, title page, and with woodcut on the last page. Wilde's first book. Wilde's poem was the Newdigate Prize winner for 1878, presented at Oxford University for best poetry. "During a vacation ramble in 1877 [Wilde] started from Greece, [and] visiting Ravenna by chance on the way, he obtained material for a poem on that ancient city, and singularly enough, Ravenna was afterwards given out as the topic for the Newdigate competition." (Hamilton, The Aesthetic Movement in England, as quoted by Mason, pg. 243). 8vo. 16pp. Mason, pg. 241.

Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son,, 1878. Attractively bound copy of Wilde's first independent publication First edition of Wilde's first independent publication, an attractively bound copy preserving the original wrappers, and with the bookplate to the front pastedown of the eccentric sportsman and artist William Eden (1849-1915), father of future Prime Minister Anthony Eden, and who, like Wilde, had a dispute with the artist James McNeill Whistler. The inspiration for Wilde's prize-winning poem came on a "vacation ramble" to Italy in 1877 with the precentor and junior dean of Trinity College, Dublin, William Mahaffy. According to the review published the next day in The Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate's Journal Wilde's recitation of it at Oxford was "listened to with rapt attention and frequently applauded" (Ellman, p. 94). Eden excelled at a range of sports from boxing and horse riding to shooting, "the epitome of the sporting squire" (ODNB), a member of several clubs and well known in London… Read More

Oxford: Thomas Shrimpton and Son, 1878. First Edition. First edition. (Oxford crest present on front wrap and title page; a later pirate edition lacked these. Mason 301). 16 pp. Bound in publisher's gray-green printed wrappers. An unsophisticated copy, Very Good with toning and and few small edge chips to fragile wrappers. Contents bright and in great shape. The author's first book.

1878. [the fine Bradley Martin copy] Recited in The Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878. Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878. Original grey printed wrappers. First Edition of Oscar Wilde's first book, the Newdigate Prize-winning poem that he wrote while a student at Magdalen College. To quote from Pearson: He [Wilde] left Oxford in a blaze of glory. The subject for the Newdigate Prize Poem that year was Ravenna, and it so happened that he had visited the place on his way to Greece [the year before], noting it as a theme for poetic treatment. He could therefore put in bits of local colour which the other competitors had to glean from books. He won the prize, as John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold had done before him, and declaimed the poem in the Sheldonian Theatre on June 26, 1878... When the Professor of Poetry, J.C. Shairp, whose duty it was to suggest textual improvements to the winner of the Newdigate, advised certain alterations, Wilde listened with due courtesy, took careful notes of every suggestion,… Read More

Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878. First edition. First edition. 12mo. 16pp. Original grey-green printed wrappers. Exceedingly scarce first edition with the publisher's printed crest appearing on the cover of the wrappers as well as on the title page and a vignette woodcut appears on the last page. The prestigious Newdigate Prize, Oxford's top award for poetry, dates to early 1800's and the winner for 1878 was the young Oscar Wilde. The pamphlet was issued in the same year, as was common with many of the early prize winners, and is considered Wilde's first publication in book form. He worked on the poem a few years earlier while touring Greece as a student at Oxford. An exemplary copy, with no wrinkling or central creases as was commonly seen from folding to place in a pocket. Very small nick out of two corners, very slight (barely detectable) browning to covers, else extremely clean and bright. 16pp.