I was able to find it all in just ten books, plus one e-book, which means I won't have to constantly be jumping amongst a huge number of volumes. I actually could have gotten away with it in seven (that Complete Works volume is actually quite true to its name) but I wanted to be able to take Dorian Gray, the short stories, and De Profundis with me in a more purse-friendly manner, as they're the more long form offerings.
Here are the ten books which will be my companions for the next year, also with that absurdly pink version of Complete Works I'd mentioned last week, for good measure:
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| It will now return to my car. |
The three in question are below, and are marked by an * on the list:
The Women of Homer, an essay written in 1876, during Oscar's Oxford days. Held fast in the clutches of The Oscar Wilde Society, and seemingly unavailable anywhere else, unless one has hundreds of pounds/dollars for an out of print version.
An article on the painter Henry O'Neill, which Oscar published anonymously in "Saunders News-Letter" in Dublin, in 1877. I will still try to look for this online, but so far no luck.
Fire at Sea, a translation of a French short story, ca. 1886. From everything I can find, it was printed on a 25-page quarto folio, not sure how many copies, and that's about it. Again, I'll continue to look for this one as well.
So here we have it, the master list of works by Oscar Wilde, not including individual letters, which I intend to read in groups by year. Two works, a play fragment and a poem, were published posthumously by Robert Ross, and those dates are used. The final count is: 67 essays and reviews, 6 lectures, 9 plays, 14 short stories, 95 poems, 1 Dorian Gray, and 1 De Profundis for a total of 193 unique pieces. And the trial transcript. And all those letters...
I'm beyond excited to have completed this list and be able to get on with the reading. Wish me luck!
| Year of Publication | Title | Category |
| 1875 | San Miniato | Poem |
| 1875 | Chorus of Cloud Maidens | Poem |
| 1876 | From Spring Days to Winter | Poem |
| 1876 | La Bella Donna della mia Mente | Poem |
| 1876 | The Dole of the King’s Daughter | Poem |
| 1876 | Rome Unvisited | Poem |
| 1876 | ΑΙΛΙΝΟΝ, 'ΑΙΛΙΝΟΝ 'ΕΙΠΕ, ΤΟ Δ'ΕΥ ΝΙΚΑΤΩ (Tristitiae) | Poem |
| 1876 | The Rise of Historical Criticism | Essay |
| 1876 | *The Women of Homer | Essay |
| 1877 | Sonnet on approaching Italy | Poem |
| 1877 | Sonnet written in Holy Week at Genoa | Poem |
| 1877 | Urbs Sacra Æterna | Poem |
| 1877 | The Grave of Keats | Poem |
| 1877 | The Tomb of Keats | Essay |
| 1877 | *Article on Henry O'Neill, Saunders' Newsletter | Essay |
| 1877 | Vita Nuova | Poem |
| 1877 | A Fragment from the Agamemnon of Aeschylos | Poem |
| 1877 | A Vision | Poem |
| 1877 | Madonna Mia | Poem |
| 1877 | Wasted Days | Poem |
| 1878 | Ravenna | Poem |
| 1878 | Ave Maria Gratia plena | Poem |
| 1878 | ΘΡΗΝΩΔΙΑ (A Song of Lamentation) (exact date unknown, assuming college) | Poem |
| 1879 | Athanasia | Poem |
| 1879 | Easter Day | Poem |
| 1879 | Phêdre (A Sonnet to Sarah Bernhardt) | Poem |
| 1879 | Queen Henrietta Maria | Essay |
| 1879 | The New Helen/ | Poem |
| 1879 | Ballade de Marguerite | Poem |
| 1880 | Vera; or, The Nihilists | Play |
| 1880 | Impression de Voyage | Poem |
| 1880 | Ave Imperatrix | Poem |
| 1880 | Pan, A Villanelle | Essay |
| 1880 | Libertatis Sacra Fames | Poem |
| 1880 | The Artist's Dream or Sen Artysty | Poem |
| 1881 | Serenade | Poem |
| 1881 | Impression du Matin | Poem |
| 1881 | La Fuite de la Lune | Poem |
| 1881 | Les Silhouettes | Poem |
| 1881 | Amor Intellectualis | Poem |
| 1881 | Apologia | Poem |
| 1881 | At Verona | Poem |
| 1881 | Camma/ | Poem |
| 1881 | Chanson | Poem |
| 1881 | Charmides | Poem |
| 1881 | E Tenebris | Poem |
| 1881 | Endymion | Poem |
| 1881 | Fabien dei Franchi, Camma | Poem |
| 1881 | Helas | Poem |
| 1881 | Her Voice | Poem |
| 1881 | Humanitad | Poem |
| 1881 | Impression: Le Reveillon | Poem |
| 1881 | Impressions du Théatre: | Poem |
| 1881 | In the Gold Room: a Harmony | Poem |
| 1881 | Italia | Poem |
| 1881 | Louis Napoleon | Poem |
| 1881 | Magdalen Walks | Poem |
| 1881 | My Voice | Poem |
| 1881 | Panthea | Poem |
| 1881 | Portia | Poem |
| 1881 | Quantum Mutata | Poem |
| 1881 | Quia Multum amavi | Poem |
| 1881 | Requiescat | Poem |
| 1881 | Santa Decca | Poem |
| 1881 | Silentium Amoris | Poem |
| 1881 | Sonnet on hearing the Dies Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel | Poem |
| 1881 | Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria | Poem |
| 1881 | Sonnet to Liberty | Poem |
| 1881 | Tædium Vitæ | Poem |
| 1881 | The Burden of Itys | Poem |
| 1881 | The Garden of Eros | Poem |
| 1881 | The Grave of Shelley | Poem |
| 1881 | Theocritus: a Villanelle | Poem |
| 1881 | Theoretikos/ | Poem |
| 1881 | To Milton | Poem |
| 1881 | ΓΛΥΚΥΠΙΚΡΟΕ ΕΡΩΣ (Flower of Love) | Poem |
| 1881 | Impressions: | Poem |
| 1881 | By the Arno/ | Poem |
| 1881 | La Mer | Poem |
| 1881 | Lotus Leaves | Poem |
| 1881 | On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters | Poem |
| 1881 | The True Knowledge | Poem |
| 1881 | Under The Balcony | Poem |
| 1881 | With A Copy of "A House of Pomegranates" | Poem |
| 1881 | Le Jardin des Tuileries | Poem |
| 1882 | L'Envoi | Essay |
| 1882 | The Irish Poets of '48 | Lecture |
| 1882 | House Decoration | Lecture |
| 1882 | Mrs. Langtry as Hester Grazebrook | Essay |
| 1882 | Art and the Handicraftsman | Lecture |
| 1882 | The English Renaissance of Art | Lecture |
| 1883 | The Duchess of Padua | Play |
| 1883 | Lecture to Art Students | Lecture |
| 1883 | Personal Impressions of America | Lecture |
| 1884 | Woman's Dress | Essay |
| 1885 | Mr. Whistler's Ten o'clock | Essay |
| 1885 | The Relation of Dress to Art | Essay |
| 1885 | Dinners and Dishes | Essay |
| 1885 | Shakespeare on Scenery | Essay |
| 1885 | The Harlot's House | Poem |
| 1885 | Hamlet at the Lyceum | Essay |
| 1885 | Henry IV at Oxford | Essay |
| 1885 | The Truth of Masks | Essay |
| 1885 | Roses and Rue (to L.L.) | Poem |
| 1885 | A Handbook to Marriage | Essay |
| 1885 | Aristotle at Afternoon Tea | Essay |
| 1885 | The Philosophy of Dress | Essay |
| 1886 | *A Fire at Sea, translation | Story |
| 1886 | Keats's Sonnet on Blue | Essay |
| 1886 | Balzac in English | Essay |
| 1886 | Ben Johnson | Essay |
| 1886 | A "Jolly" Art Critic | Essay |
| 1886 | [George Saintsbury] "Half Hours with the Worst Authors | Essay |
| 1886 | To Read or Not to Read | Essay |
| 1886 | Two Biographies of Sir Philip Sidney | Essay |
| 1887 | The Canterville Ghost | Story |
| 1887 | Great Writers by Little Men | Essay |
| 1887 | The American Invasion | Essay |
| 1887 | A Cheap Edition of a Great Man | Essay |
| 1887 | Injury & Insult | Essay |
| 1887 | The Sphinx Without a Secret | Story |
| 1887 | Mr. Pater's Imaginary Portraits | Essay |
| 1887 | The Model Millionaire | Story |
| 1887 | Two Biographies of Keats | Essay |
| 1887 | Lord Arthur Saville's Crime | Story |
| 1887 | Fantaisies Décoratives | Poem |
| 1887 | [Dostoevsky's The Insulted and Injured] | Essay |
| 1887 | A New Book on Dickens | Essay |
| 1887 | Mr. Mahaffy's New Book [Greek Life and Thought] | Essay |
| 1887 | The American Man | Essay |
| 1887 | The Butterfly's Boswel | Essay |
| 1887 | The Poets and the People | Essay |
| 1887 | The Rout of the R[oyal] A[cademy] | Essay |
| 1887 | William Morris's Odyssey | Essay |
| 1888 | Canzonet | Poem |
| 1888 | From the Poets' Corner | Essay |
| 1888 | The Devoted Friend | Story |
| 1888 | The Happy Prince | Story |
| 1888 | The Nightingale and the Rose | Story |
| 1888 | The Remarkable Rocket | Story |
| 1888 | The Selfish Giant | Story |
| 1888 | English Poetesses | Essay |
| 1888 | Sir Edwin Arnold's Last Volume | Essay |
| 1888 | The Young King | Story |
| 1888 | [Poems by Henley and Sharpe] | Essay |
| 1888 | M, Caro on George Sand | Essay |
| 1889 | London Models | Essay |
| 1889 | Pen, Pencil and Poison | Essay |
| 1889 | The Decay of Lying | Essay |
| 1889 | The New President [of the Royal Society of British Artists] | Essay |
| 1889 | Some Literary Notes | Essay |
| 1889 | Symphony in Yellow | Poem |
| 1889 | Further Literary Notes | Essay |
| 1889 | The Birthday of the Infanta | Story |
| 1889 | The Portrait of Mr. W. H. | Story |
| 1889 | In The Forest | Poem |
| 1889 | [Yeats's Fairy and Folk Tales] | Essay |
| 1889 | [Yeats's The Wanderings of Oisin] | Essay |
| 1889 | Mr. Froude's Blue Book [on Ireland] | Essay |
| 1889 | Mr. Swinburne's Last Volume | Essay |
| 1889 | Ouida's New Novel [Guilderoy] | Essay |
| 1889 | Poetry and Prison | Essay |
| 1889 | The Gospel According to Walt Whitman | Essay |
| 1890 | The Soul of Man Under Socialism | Essay |
| 1890 | A Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray | Essay |
| 1890 | The Critic As Artist | Essay |
| 1890 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Novel |
| 1890 | [Defense of Dorian Gray] (letters to the press) | Essay |
| 1890 | A Chinese Sage [Confucius] | Essay |
| 1890 | Mr. Pater's Last Volume [Appreciations] | Essay |
| 1891 | The Fisherman and his Soul | Story |
| 1891 | The Star-Child | Story |
| 1891 | Salome | Play |
| 1891 | The New Remorse | Poem |
| 1892 | Lady Windermere's Fan | Play |
| 1893 | The House of Judgement | Poem |
| 1893 | A Woman of No Importance | Play |
| 1893 | The Disciple | Poem |
| 1893 | To My Wife | Poem |
| 1894 | The Sphinx | Poem |
| 1894 | The Artist | Poem |
| 1894 | The Doer of Good | Poem |
| 1894 | The Master | Poem |
| 1894 | The Teacher of Wisdom | Poem |
| 1894 | A Few Maxims For the Instruction of the Over-Educated | Essay |
| 1894 | Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young | Essay |
| 1894 | La Sainte Courtisane | Play |
| 1895 | An Ideal Husband | Play |
| 1895 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Play |
| 1897 | De Profundis | Letter |
| 1898 | The Ballad of Reading Gaol | Poem |
| 1908 | A Florentine Tragedy | Play |
| 1909 | Desespoir | Poem |
I am really impressed with your book collection and also profoundly jealous. Coud you telll me from which book the quote about a well-made buttonhole comes? It is really important to me and I have searched everywhere. I went through lectures, essays and a couple of plays. I am positive it is not from Dorian Grey, because that one I know by heart. I woud be immensely greatful for any hint you could give me - I am writing an MA thesis about Wilde and I really think that sentence makes a clear statement about Wilde's attitude towards the correspondance of art and nature.
ReplyDeleteIt is so nice to find other Wilde's aficionados, <3 I am gonna visist you here sometimes.