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  The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  Oscar Wilde · 22 pages

  The long poem Wilde wrote after his release from prison, about a man hanged for murder and about everyone who watches it happen. Published under his cell number rather than his name.

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  The Sphinx

  Oscar Wilde · 8 pages

  A long decadent poem addressed to a stone sphinx, dense with exotic imagery and deliberately excessive. Wilde worked on it for years.

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  Ravenna

  Oscar Wilde · 9 pages

  The poem that won Wilde the Newdigate Prize at Oxford in 1878, written after a visit to the Italian city. Eight pages, and the first thing he published to real acclaim.

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  De Profundis

  Oscar Wilde · 39 pages

  The long letter Wilde wrote from his prison cell, part accusation and part reckoning with his own life. The most personal thing he ever wrote.

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  Intentions

  Oscar Wilde · 147 pages

  Four critical essays, including The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist, where Wilde sets out the case that art owes nothing to nature or morality. This is where the aesthetic theory lives.

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