Transcribed from the 1913 Methuen & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

POEMS
BY
OSCAR WILDE

WITH THE BALLAD OF
READING GAOL

METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

Twelfth Edition

First Published
Ravenna 1878
Poems 1881
,, Fifth Edition 1882
The Sphinx 1894
The Ballad of Reading Gaol 1898
First Issued by Methuen and Co. (Limited Editions on Handmade Paper and Japanese Vellum) March 1908
Seventh Edition (F’cap. 8vo). September 1909
Eighth Edition ( ,, ,, ) November 1909
Ninth Edition ( ,, ,, ) December 1909
Tenth Edition ( ,, ,, ) November 1910
Eleventh Edition ( ,, ,, ) December 1911
Twelfth Edition ( ,, ,, ) April 1913

NOTE

This collection of Wilde’s Poems contains the volume of 1881 in its entirety, ‘The Sphinx’, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol,’ andRavenna.’ Of the Uncollected Poems published in the Uniform Edition of 1908, a few, including the Translations from the Greek and the Polish, are omitted. Two new poems, ‘DésespoirandPan,’ which I have recently discovered in manuscript, are now printed for the first time. Particulars as to the original publication of each poem will be found inA Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde,’ by Stuart Mason, London 1907.

Robert Ross.

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