present known) to magazines, periodicals, etc., the date given being that
of the first publication only. Those marked with an asterisk (*) were
published anonymously. Many of the poems have been included in
anthologies of modern verse, but no attempt has been made to give
particulars of such reprints in this Bibliography.
I.--AUTHORISED ENGLISH EDITIONS
NEWDIGATE PRIZE POEM. RAVENNA. Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 26,
1878. By OSCAR WILDE, Magdalen College. Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and
Son, 1878.
POEMS. London: David Bogue, 1881 (June 30).
Second and Third Editions, 1881.
Fourth and Fifth Editions [Revised], 1882.
220 copies (200 for sale) of the Fifth Edition, with a new title-page and
cover designed by Charles Ricketts. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane,
1892 (May 26).
THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES. ('The Happy Prince,' 'The Nightingale
and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant,' 'The Devoted Friend,' 'The Remarkable
Rocket.') Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood. London: David
Nutt, 1888 (May).
Also 75 copies (65 for sale) on Large Paper, with the plates in two
states.
Second Edition, January 1889.
Third Edition, February 1902.
Fourth Impression, September 1905.
Fifth Impression, February 1907.
INTENTIONS. ('The Decay of Lying,' 'Pen, Pencil, and Poison,' 'The
Critic as Artist,' 'The Truth of Masks.') London: James R. Osgood,
McIlvaine and Co., 1891 (May). New Edition, 1894.
Edition for Continental circulation only. The English Library, No. 54.
Leipzig: Heinemann and Balestier, 1891. Frequently reprinted.
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. London: Ward, Lock and Co. [1891 (July 1).]
Also 250 copies on Large Paper. Dated 1891.
[Note.--July 1 is the official date of publication, but presentation
copies signed by the author and dated May 1891 are known.]
New Edition [1894 (October 1).] London: Ward, Lock and Bowden.
Reprinted. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1901, 1905, 1908 (January).
Edition for Continental circulation only. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz,
vol. 4049. 1908 (July).
LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME AND OTHER STORIES. ('Lord Arthur Savile's
Crime,' 'The Sphinx Without a Secret,' 'The Canterville Ghost,' 'The
Model Millionaire.') London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891
(July).
A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES. ('The Young King,' 'The Birthday of the
Infanta,' 'The Fisherman and His Soul,' 'The Star Child.') With Designs
and Decorations by Charles Ricketts and C. H. Shannon. London: James R.
Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891 (November).
SALOME. DRAME EN UN ACTE. Paris: Librairie de l'Art Independant.
Londres: Elkin Mathews et John Lane, 1893 (February 22).
600 copies (500 for sale) and 25 on Large Paper.
New Edition. With sixteen Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Paris:
Edition a petit nombre imprimee pour les Souscripteurs. 1907.
500 copies.
[Note.--Several editions, containing only a portion of the text, have
been issued for the performance of the Opera by Richard Strauss. London:
Methuen and Co.; Berlin: Adolph Furstner. ]
LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN. A PLAY ABOUT A GOOD WOMAN. London: Elkin Mathews
and John Lane, 1893 (November 8).
500 copies and 50 on Large Paper.
Acting Edition. London: Samuel French. (Text Incomplete.)
SALOME. A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT. Translated from the French [by Lord
Alfred Bruce Douglas.] Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Elkin
Mathews and John Lane, 1894 (February 9).
500 copies and 100 on Large Paper.
With the two suppressed plates and extra title-page. Preface by Robert
Ross. London: John Lane, 1907 (September 1906).
New Edition (without illustrations). London: John Lane, 1906 (June),
1908.
THE SPHINX. With Decorations by Charles Ricketts. London: Elkin Mathews
and John Lane, 1894 (July).
200 copies and 25 on Large Paper.
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE. London: John Lane, 1894 (October 9).
500 copies and 50 on Large Paper.
THE SOUL OF MAN. London: Privately Printed, 1895.
[Reprinted from the Fortnightly Review (February 1891), by permission of
the Proprietors, and published by A. L. Humphreys.]
New Edition. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907.
Reprinted in Sebastian Melmoth. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1904, 1905.
THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL. By C.3.3. London: Leonard Smithers, 1898
(February 13).
800 copies and 30 on Japanese Vellum.
Second Edition, March 1898.
Third Edition, 1898. 99 copies only, signed by the author.
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions, 1898.
Seventh Edition, 1899. {328a}
[Note.--The above are printed at the Chiswick Press on handmade paper.
All reprints on ordinary paper are unauthorised.]
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. A TRIVIAL COMEDY FOR SERIOUS PEOPLE. BY
THE AUTHOR OF LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN. London: Leonard Smithers and Co.,
1899 (February).
1000 copies. Also 100 copies on Large Paper, and 12 on Japanese Vellum.
Acting Edition. London: Samuel French. (Text Incomplete.)
AN IDEAL HUSBAND. BY THE AUTHOR OF LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN. London:
Leonard Smithers and Co., 1889 (July).
1000 copies. Also 100 copies on Large Paper, and 12 on Japanese Vellum.
DE PROFUNDIS. London: Methuen and Co., 1905 (February 23).
Also 200 copies on Large Paper, and 50 on Japanese Vellum.
Second Edition, March 1905.
Third Edition, March 1905.
Fourth Edition, April 1905.
Fifth Edition, September 1905.
Sixth Edition, March 1906.
Seventh Edition, January 1907.
Eighth Edition, April 1907.
Ninth Edition, July 1907.
Tenth Edition, October 1907.
Eleventh Edition, January 1908. {328b}
THE WORKS OF OSCAR WILDE. London: Methuen and Co., 1908 (February 13).
In thirteen volumes. 1000 copies on Handmade Paper and 80 on Japanese
Vellum.
THE DUCHESS OF PADUA. A PLAY.
SALOME. A FLORENTINE TRAGEDY. VERA.
LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN. A PLAY ABOUT A GOOD WOMAN.
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE. A PLAY.
AN IDEAL HUSBAND. A PLAY.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. A TRIVIAL COMEDY FOR SERIOUS PEOPLE.
LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME AND OTHER PROSE PIECES.
INTENTIONS AND THE SOUL OF MAN.
THE POEMS.
A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES, THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES.
DE PROFUNDIS.
REVIEWS.
MISCELLANIES.
Uniform with the above. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908 (April 16).
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
II.--EDITIONS PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR
VERA; OR, THE NIHILISTS. A DRAMA IN A PROLOGUE AND FOUR ACTS. [New
York] 1882.
THE DUCHESS OF PADUA: A TRAGEDY OF THE XVI CENTURY WRITTEN IN PARIS IN
THE XIX CENTURY. Privately Printed as Manuscript. [New York, 1883
(March 15).]
III.--MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO MAGAZINES, PERIODICALS, Etc.
1875
November. CHORUS OF CLOUD MAIDENS ([Greek], 275-287 and 295-307). Dublin
University Magazine, Vol. LXXXVI. No. 515, page 622.
1876
January. FROM SPRING DAYS TO WINTER. (FOR MUSIC.) Dublin University
Magazine, Vol. LXXXVII. No. 517, page 47.
March. GRAFFITI D'ITALIA. I. SAN MINIATO. (JUNE 15.) Dublin
University Magazine, Vol. LXXXVII. No. 519, page 297.
June. THE DOLE OF THE KING'S DAUGHTER. Dublin University Magazine, Vol.
LXXXVII. No. 522, page 682.
Trinity Term. [Greek]. (THE ROSE OF LOVE, AND WITH A ROSE'S THORNS.)
Kottabos, Vol. II. No. 10, page 268.
September. [Greek]. Dublin University Magazine, Vol. LXXXVIII. No. 525,
page 291.
September. THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE. Irish Monthly, Vol. IV. No. 39, page
594.
September. GRAFFITI D'ITALIA. (ARONA. LAGO MAGGIORE.) Month and
Catholic Review, Vol. xxviii. No. 147, page 77.
Michaelmas Term. [Greek]. Kottabos, Vol. II. No. 11, page 298.
1877
February. LOTUS LEAVES. Irish Monthly, Vol. v. No. 44, page 133.
Hilary Term. A FRAGMENT FROM THE AGAMEMNON OF AESCHYLOS. Kottabos, Vol.
II. No. 12, page 320.
Hilary Term. A NIGHT VISION. Kottabos, Vol. II. No. 12, page 331.
June. SALVE SATURNIA TELLUS. Irish Monthly, Vol. V. No. 48, page 415.
June. URBS SACRA AETERNA. Illustrated Monitor, Vol. IV. No. 3, page
130.
July. THE TOMB OF KEATS. Irish Monthly, Vol. V. No. 49, page 476.
July. SONNET WRITTEN DURING HOLY WEEK. Illustrated Monitor, Vol. IV.
No. 4, page 186.
July. THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. Dublin University Magazine, Vol. XC. No.
535, page 118.
Michaelmas Term. WASTED DAYS. (FROM A PICTURE PAINTED BY MISS V. T.)
Kottabos, Vol. III. No. 2, page 56.
December. [Greek]. Irish Monthly, Vol. V. No. 54, page 746.
1878
April. MAGDALEN WALKS. Irish Monthly, Vol. VI. No. 58, page 211.
1879
Hilary Term. 'LA BELLE MARGUERITE.' BALLADE DU MOYEN AGE. Kottabos,
Vol. III. No. 6, page 146.
April. THE CONQUEROR OF TIME. Time, Vol. I. No. 1, page 30.
May 5. GROSVENOR GALLERY (First Notice.) Saunders' Irish Daily News,
Vol. CXC. No. 42,886, page 5.
June. EASTER DAY. Waifs and Strays, Vol. I. No. 1, page 2.
June 11. TO SARAH BERNHARDT. World, No. 258, page 18.
July. THE NEW HELEN. Time, Vol. I. No. 4, page 400.
July 16. QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA. (Charles I,, act iii.) World, No. 263,
page 18.
Michaelmas Term. AVE! MARIA. Kottabos, Vol. III. No. 8, page 206.
1880
January 14. PORTIA. World, No. 289, page 13.
March. IMPRESSION DE VOYAGE. Waifs and Strays, Vol. I. No. 3, page 77.
August 25. AVE IMPERATRIX! A POEM ON ENGLAND. World, No. 321, page 12.
November 10. LIBERTATIS SACRA FAMES. World, No. 332, page 15.
December. SEN ARTYSTY; OR, THE ARTIST'S DREAM. Translated from the
Polish of Madame Helena Modjeska. Routledge's Christmas Annual: The
Green Room, page 66.
1881
January. THE GRAVE OF KEATS. Burlington, Vol. I. No. 1, page 35.
March 2. IMPRESSION DE MATIN. World, No. 348, page 15.
1882
February 15. IMPRESSIONS: I. LE JARDIN. II. LA MER. Our Continent
(Philadelphia), Vol. I. No. 1, page 9.
November 7. MRS. LANGTRY AS HESTER GRAZEBROOK. New York World, page 5.
L'ENVOI, An Introduction to Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf, by Rennell Rodd,
page 11. Philadelphia: J. M. Stoddart and Co.
[Besides the ordinary edition a limited number of an edition de luxe was
issued printed in brown ink on one side only of a thin transparent
handmade parchment paper, the whole book being interleaved with green
tissue.]
1883
November 14. TELEGRAM TO WHISTLER. World, No. 489, page 16.
1884
May 29. UNDER THE BALCONY. Shaksperean Show-Book, page 23.
(Set to Music by Lawrence Kellie as OH! BEAUTIFUL STAR. SERENADE.
London: Robert Cocks and Co., 1892.)
October 14. MR. OSCAR WILDE ON WOMAN'S DRESS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol.
XL. No. 6114, page 6.
November 11. MORE RADICAL IDEAS UPON DRESS REFORM. (With two
illustrations.) Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XL. No. 6138, page 14.
1885
February 21. MR. WHISTLER'S TEN O'CLOCK. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLI.
No. 6224, page 1.
February 25. TENDERNESS IN TITE STREET. World, No. 556, page 14.
February 28. THE RELATION OF DRESS TO ART. A NOTE IN BLACK AND WHITE ON
MR. WHISTLER'S LECTURE. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLI. No. 6230, page 4.
March 7. *DINNERS AND DISHES. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLI. No. 6236,
page 5.
March 13. *A MODERN EPIC. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLI. No. 6241, page
11.
March 14. SHAKESPEARE ON SCENERY. Dramatic Review, Vol. I. No. 7, page
99.
March 27. *A BEVY OF POETS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLI. No. 6253, page
5.
April 1. *PARNASSUS VERSUS PHILOLOGY. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLI. No.
6257, page 6.
April 11. THE HARLOT'S HOUSE. Dramatic Review, Vol. I. No. 11, page
167.
May. SHAKESPEARE AND STAGE COSTUME. Nineteenth Century, Vol. XVII. No.
99, page 800.
May 9. HAMLET AT THE LYCEUM. Dramatic Review, Vol. I. No. 15, page 227.
May 15. *TWO NEW NOVELS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLI. No. 6293, page 4.
May 23. HENRY THE FOURTH AT OXFORD. Dramatic Review, Vol. I. No. 17,
page 264.
May 27. *MODERN GREEK POETRY. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLI. No. 6302,
page 5.
May 30. OLIVIA AT THE LYCEUM. Dramatic Review, Vol. I. No. 18, page
278.
June. LE JARDIN DES TUILERIES. (With an illustration by L. Troubridge.)
In a Good Cause, page 83. London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co.
June 6. AS YOU LIKE IT AT COOMBE HOUSE. Dramatic Review, Vol. I. No.
19, page 296.
July. ROSES AND RUE. Midsummer Dreams, Summer Number of Society.
(No copy of this is known to exist.)
November 18. *A HANDBOOK TO MARRIAGE. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLII. No.
6452, page 5.
1886
January 15. *HALF-HOURS WITH THE WORST AUTHORS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol.
XLIII. No. 6501, page 4.
January 23. SONNET. ON THE RECENT SALE BY AUCTION OF KEATS' LOVE
LETTERS. Dramatic Review, Vol. II. No. 52, page 249.
February 1. *ONE OF MR. CONWAY'S REMAINDERS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol.
XLIII. No. 6515, page 5.
February 8. TO READ OR NOT TO READ. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIII. No.
6521, page 11.
February 20. TWELFTH NIGHT AT OXFORD. Dramatic Review, Vol. III. No.
56, page 34.
March 6. *THE LETTERS OF A GREAT WOMAN. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIII.
No. 6544, page 4.
April 12. *NEWS FROM PARNASSUS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIII. No.
6575, page 5.
April 14. *SOME NOVELS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIII. No. 6577, page
5.
April 17. *A LITERARY PILGRIM. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIII. No. 6580,
page 5.
April 21. *BERANGER IN ENGLAND. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIII. No.
6583, page 5.
May 13. *THE POETRY OF THE PEOPLE. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIII. No.
6601, page 5.
May 15. THE CENCI. Dramatic Review, Vol. III. No. 68, page 151.
May 22. HELENA IN TROAS. Dramatic Review, Vol. III. No. 69, page 161.
July. KEATS' SONNET ON BLUE. (With facsimile of original Manuscript.)
Century Guild Hobby Horse, Vol. I. No. 3, page 83.
August 4. *PLEASING AND PRATTLING. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIV. No.
6672, page 5.
September 13. *BALZAC IN ENGLISH. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIV. No.
6706, page 5.
September 16. *TWO NEW NOVELS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIV. No. 6709,
page 5.
September 20. *BEN JONSON. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIV. No. 6712, page
6.
September 27. *THE POETS' CORNER. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIV. No.
6718, page 5.
October 8. *A RIDE THROUGH MOROCCO. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIV. No.
6728, page 5.
October 14. *THE CHILDREN OF THE POETS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIV.
No. 6733, page 5.
October 28. *NEW NOVELS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIV. No. 6745, page
4.
November 3. *A POLITICIAN'S POETRY. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIV. No.
6750, page 4.
November 10. *MR. SYMONDS' HISTORY OF THE RENAISSANCE. Pall Mall
Gazette, Vol. XLIV. No. 6756, page 5.
November 18. *A 'JOLLY' ART CRITIC. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIV. No.
6763, page 6.
November 24. NOTE ON WHISTLER. World, No. 647, page 14.
December 1. *A 'SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY' THROUGH LITERATURE. Pall Mall
Gazette, Vol. XLIV. No. 6774, page 5.
December 11. *TWO BIOGRAPHIES OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. Pall Mall Gazette,
Vol. XLIV. No. 6783, page 5.
1887
January 8. *COMMON SENSE IN ART. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLV. No. 6806,
page 5.
February 1. *MINER AND MINOR POETS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLV. No.
6826, page 5.
February 17. *A NEW CALENDAR. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLV. No. 6840,
page 5.
February 23. THE CANTERVILLE GHOST--I. Illustrated by F. H. Townsend.
Court and Society Review, Vol. IV. No. 138, page 193.
March 2. THE CANTERVILLE GHOST--II. Illustrated by F. H. Townsend.
Court and Society Review, Vol. IV. No. 139, page 207.
March 8. *THE POETS' CORNER. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLV. No. 6856,
page 5.
March 23. *THE AMERICAN INVASION. Court and Society Review, Vol. IV.
No. 142, page 270.
March 28. *GREAT WRITERS BY LITTLE MEN. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLV.
No. 6873, page 5.
March 31. *A NEW BOOK ON DICKENS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLV. No.
6876, page 5.
April 12. *OUR BOOK SHELF. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLV. No. 6885, page
5.
April 18. *A CHEAP EDITION OF A GREAT MAN. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLV.
No. 6890, page 5.
April 26. *MR. MORRIS'S ODYSSEY. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLV. No. 6897,
page 5.
May 2. *A BATCH OF NOVELS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLV. No. 6902, page
11.
May 7. *SOME NOVELS. Saturday Review, Vol. LXIII. No. 1645, page 663.
May 11. LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME. A STORY OF CHEIROMANCY.--I. II.
Illustrated by F. H. Townsend. Court and Society Review, Vol. IV. No.
149, page 447.
May 18. LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME. A STORY OF CHEIROMANCY.--III. IV.
Court and Society Review, Vol. IV. No. 150, page 471.
May 25. LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME. A STORY OF CHEIROMANCY.--V. VI.
Illustrated by F. H. Townsend. Court and Society Review, Vol. IV. No.
151, page 495.
May 25. LADY ALROY. World, No. 673, page 18.
May 30. *THE POETS' CORNER. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLV. No. 6926, page
5.
June 11. *MR. PATER'S IMAGINARY PORTRAITS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLV.
No. 6937, page 2.
June 22. THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE. World, No. 677, page 18.
August 8. *A GOOD HISTORICAL NOVEL. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVI. No.
6986, page 3.
August 20. *NEW NOVELS. Saturday Review, Vol. LXIV. No. 1660, page 264.
September 27. *TWO BIOGRAPHIES OF KEATS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVI.
No. 7029, page 3.
October 15. *SERMONS IN STONES AT BLOOMSBURY. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol.
XLVI. No. 7045, page 5.
October 24. *A SCOTCHMAN ON SCOTTISH POETRY. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol.
XLVI. No. 7052, page 3.
November. LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES. Woman's World, Vol. I. No. 1, page
36.
November 9. *MR. MAHAFFY'S NEW BOOK. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVI. No.
7066, page 3.
November 24. *MR. MORRIS'S COMPLETION OF THE ODYSSEY. Pall Mall
Gazette, Vol. XLVI. No. 7079, page 3.
November 30. *SIR CHARLES BOWEN'S VIRGIL. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVI.
No. 7084, page 3.
December. LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES. Woman's World, Vol. I. No. 2, page
81.
December 12. *THE UNITY OF THE ARTS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVI. No.
7094, page 13.
December 13. UN AMANT DE NOS JOURS. Court and Society Review, Vol. IV.
No. 180, page 587.
December 16. *ARISTOTLE AT AFTERNOON TEA. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVI.
No. 7098, page 3.
December 17. *EARLY CHRISTIAN ART IN IRELAND. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol.
XLVI. No. 7099, page 3.
December 25. *ART AT WILLIS'S ROOMS. Sunday Times, No. 3376, page 7.
December 25. FANTAISIES DECORATIVES. I. LE PANNEAU. II. LES BALLONS.
Illustrated by Bernard Partridge. Lady's Pictorial Christmas Number,
pages 2, 3.
1888
January. LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES. Woman's World, Vol. I. No. 3, page
132.
January 20. *THE POETS' CORNER. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVII. No.
7128, page 3.
February. LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES. Woman's World, Vol. I. No. 4, page
180.
February 15. THE POETS' CORNER. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVII. No.
7150, page 3.
February 24. *VENUS OR VICTORY. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVII. No.
7158, page 2.
March. LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES. Woman's World, Vol. I. No. 5, page
229.
April. CANZONET. Art and Letters, Vol. II. No. 1, page 46.
April 6. *THE POETS' CORNER. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVII. No. 7193,
page 3.
April 14. *M. CARO ON GEORGE SAND. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVII. No.
7200, page 3.
October 24. *THE POETS' CORNER. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVIII. No.
7365, page 5.
November. A FASCINATING BOOK. A NOTE BY THE EDITOR. Woman's World,
Vol. II. No. 13, page 53.
November 2. *MR. MORRIS ON TAPESTRY. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVIII.
No. 7373, page 6.
November 9. *SCULPTURE AT THE 'ARTS AND CRAFTS.' Pall Mall Gazette,
Vol. XLVIII. No. 7379, page 3.
November 16. *THE POETS' CORNER. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVIII. No.
7385, page 2.
November 16. *PRINTING AND PRINTERS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVIII.
No. 7385, page 5.
November 23. *THE BEAUTIES OF BOOKBINDING. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol.
XLVIII. No. 7391, page 3.
November 30. *THE CLOSE OF THE 'ARTS AND CRAFTS.' Pall Mall Gazette,
Vol. XLVIII. No. 7397, page 3.
December. A NOTE ON SOME MODERN POETS. Woman's World, Vol. II. No. 14,
page 108.
December 8. ENGLISH POETESSES. Queen, Vol. LXXXIV. No. 2189, page 742.
December 11. *SIR EDWIN ARNOLD'S LAST VOLUME. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol.
XLVIII. No. 7046, page 3.
December 14. *AUSTRALIAN POETS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLVIII. No.
7409, page 3.
December. THE YOUNG KING. Illustrated by Bernard Partridge. Lady's
Pictorial Christmas Number, page 1.
1889
January. THE DECAY OF LYING: A DIALOGUE. Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXV.
No. 143, page 35.
January. PEN, PENCIL, AND POISON: A STUDY. Fortnightly Review, Vol.
XLV. No. 265, page 41.
January. LONDON MODELS. Illustrated by Harper Pennington. English
Illustrated Magazine, Vol. VI. No. 64, page 313.
January. SOME LITERARY NOTES. Woman's World, Vol. II. No. 15, page 164.
January 3. *POETRY AND PRISON. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIX. No. 7425,
page 3.
January 25. *THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WALT WHITMAN. Pall Mall Gazette,
Vol. XLIX. No. 7444, page 3.
January 26. *THE NEW PRESIDENT. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIX. No. 7445,
page 3.
February. SOME LITERARY NOTES. Woman's World, Vol. II. No. 16, page
221.
February. SYMPHONY IN YELLOW. Centennial Magazine (Sydney), Vol. II.
No. 7, page 437.
February 12. *ONE OF THE BIBLES OF THE WORLD. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol.
XLIX. No. 7459, page 3.
February 15. *POETICAL SOCIALISTS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIX. No.
7462, page 3.
February 27. *MR. BRANDER MATTHEWS' ESSAYS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol.
XLIX. No. 7472, page 3.
March. SOME LITERARY NOTES. Woman's World, Vol. III. No. 17, page 277.
March 2. *MR. WILLIAM MORRIS'S LAST BOOK. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIX.
No. 7475, page 3.
March 25. *ADAM LINDSAY GORDON. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIX. No. 7494,
page 3.
March 30. *THE POETS' CORNER. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIX. No. 7499,
page 3.
April. SOME LITERARY NOTES. Woman's World, Vol. II. No. 18, page 333.
April 13. MR. FROUDE'S BLUE-BOOK. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIX. No.
7511, page 3.
May. SOME LITERARY NOTES. Woman's World, Vol. ii. No. 19, page 389.
May 17. *OUIDA'S NEW NOVEL. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIX. No. 7539,
page 3.
June. SOME LITERARY NOTES. Woman's World, Vol. II. No. 20, page 446.
June 5. *A THOUGHT-READER'S NOVEL. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIX. No.
7555, page 2.
June 24. *THE POETS' CORNER. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIX. No. 7571,
page 3.
June 27. *MR. SWINBURNE'S LAST VOLUME. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. XLIX.
No. 7574, page 3.
July. THE PORTRAIT OF MR. W. H. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol.
CXLVI. No. 885, page 1.
July 12. *THREE NEW POETS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. I. No. 7587, page 3.
December. IN THE FOREST. Illustrated by Bernard Partridge. Lady's
Pictorial Christmas Number, page 9.
(Set to music by Edwin Tilden and published by Miles and Thompson,
Boston, U.S.A., 1891.)
1890
January 9. REPLY TO MR. WHISTLER. Truth, Vol. XXVII. No. 680, page 51.
February 8. A CHINESE SAGE. Speaker, Vol. I. No. 6, page 144.
March 22. MR. PATER'S LAST VOLUME. Speaker, Vol. I. No. 12, page 319.
May 24. *PRIMAVERA. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. LI. No. 7856, page 3.
June 20. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
(July), Vol. XLVI. No. 271, page 3.
(Containing thirteen chapters only.)
June 26. MR. WILDE'S BAD CASE. St. James's Gazette, Vol. XX. No. 3135,
page 4.
June 27. MR. OSCAR WILDE AGAIN. St. James's Gazette, Vol. XX. No. 3136,
page 5.
June 28. MR. OSCAR WILDE'S DEFENCE. St. James's Gazette, Vol. XX. No.
3137, page 5.
June 30. MR. OSCAR WILDE'S DEFENCE. St. James's Gazette, Vol. XX. No.
3138, page 5.
July. THE TRUE FUNCTION AND VALUE OF CRITICISM; WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE
IMPORTANCE OF DOING NOTHING: A DIALOGUE. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
XXVIII. No. 161, page 123.
July 2. 'DORIAN GRAY.' Daily Chronicle and Clerkenwell News, No. 8830,
page 5.
July 12. MR. WILDE'S REJOINDER. Scots Observer, Vol. IV. No. 86, page
201.
August 2. ART AND MORALITY. Scots Observer, Vol. IV. No. 89, page 279.
August 16. ART AND MORALITY. Scots Observer, Vol. IV. No. 91, page 332.
September. THE TRUE FUNCTION AND VALUE OF CRITICISM; WITH SOME REMARKS
ON THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING NOTHING: A DIALOGUE (concluded). Nineteenth
Century, Vol. XXVIII. No. 163, page 435.
1891
February. THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM. Fortnightly Review, Vol.
XLIX. No. 290, page 292.
March. A PREFACE TO 'DORIAN GRAY.' Fortnightly Review, Vol. XLIX. No.
291, page 480.
September 26. AN ANGLO-INDIAN'S COMPLAINT. Times, No. 33,440, page 10.
December 5. 'A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES.' Speaker, Vol. IV. No. 101, page
682.
December 11. MR. OSCAR WILDE'S 'HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES.' Pall Mall
Gazette, Vol. LIII. No. 8339, page 2.
1892
February 20. PUPPETS AND ACTORS. Daily Telegraph, No. 11,470, page 3.
February 27. MR. OSCAR WILDE EXPLAINS. St. James's Gazette, Vol. XXIV.
No. 3654, page 4.
December 6. THE NEW REMORSE. Spirit Lamp, Vol. II. No. 4, page 97.
1893
February 17. THE HOUSE OF JUDGMENT. Spirit Lamp, Vol. III. No. 2, page
52.
March 2. MR. OSCAR WILDE ON 'SALOME.' Times, No. 33,888, page 4.
June 6. THE DISCIPLE. Spirit Lamp, Vol. IV. No. 2, page 49.
TO MY WIFE: WITH A COPY OF MY POEMS; AND WITH A COPY OF 'THE HOUSE OF
POMEGRANATES.' Book-Song, An Anthology of Poems of Books and Bookmen
from Modern Authors. Edited by Gleeson White, pages 156, 157. London:
Elliot Stock.
[This was the first publication of these two poems. Anthologies
containing reprints are not included in this list.]
1894
January 15. LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE THIRTEEN CLUB. Times, No.
34,161, page 7.
July. POEMS IN PROSE. ('The Artist,' 'The Doer of Good,' 'The
Disciple,' 'The Master,' 'The House of Judgment.') Fortnightly Review,
Vol. LIV. No. 331, page 22.
September 20. THE ETHICS OF JOURNALISM. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. LIX.
No. 9202, page 3.
September 25. THE ETHICS OF JOURNALISM. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. LIX.
No. 9206, page 3.
October 2. 'THE GREEN CARNATION.' Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. LIX. No.
9212, page 3.
December. PHRASES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR THE USE OF THE YOUNG. Chameleon,
Vol. I. No. 1, page 1.
1895
April 6. LETTER ON THE QUEENSBERRY CASE. Evening News, No. 4226, page
3.
1897
May 28. THE CASE OF WARDER MARTIN. SOME CRUELTIES OF PRISON LIFE. Daily
Chronicle, No. 10,992, page 9.
1898
March 24. LETTER ON PRISON REFORM. Daily Chronicle, No. 11,249, page 5.
Footnotes.
{0a} See Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and other Prose Pieces in this
edition, page 223.
{3} Reverently some well-meaning persons have placed a marble slab on
the wall of the cemetery with a medallion-profile of Keats on it and some
mediocre lines of poetry. The face is ugly, and rather hatchet-shaped,
with thick sensual lips, and is utterly unlike the poet himself, who was
very beautiful to look upon. 'His countenance,' says a lady who saw him
at one of Hazlitt's lectures, 'lives in my mind as one of singular beauty
and brightness; it had the expression as if he had been looking on some
glorious sight.' And this is the idea which Severn's picture of him
gives. Even Haydon's rough pen-and-ink sketch of him is better than this
'marble libel,' which I hope will soon be taken down. I think the best
representation of the poet would be a coloured bust, like that of the
young Rajah of Koolapoor at Florence, which is a lovely and lifelike work
of art.
{19} It is perhaps not generally known that there is another and older
peacock ceiling in the world besides the one Mr. Whistler has done at
Kensington. I was surprised lately at Ravenna to come across a mosaic
ceiling done in the keynote of a peacock's tail--blue, green, purple, and
gold--and with four peacocks in the four spandrils. Mr. Whistler was
unaware of the existence of this ceiling at the time he did his own.
{43} An Unequal Match, by Tom Taylor, at Wallack's Theatre, New York,
November 6, 1882.
{74} 'Make' is of course a mere printer's error for 'mock,' and was
subsequently corrected by Lord Houghton. The sonnet as given in The
Garden of Florence reads 'orbs' for 'those.'
{158} September 1890. See Intentions, page 214.
{163} November 30, 1891.
{164} February 12, 1892.
{170} February 23, 1893.
{172} The verses called 'The Shamrock' were printed in the Sunday Sun,
August 5, 1894, and the charge of plagiarism was made in the issue dated
September 16, 1894.
{188} Cousin errs a good deal in this respect. To say, as he did, 'Give
me the latitude and the longitude of a country, its rivers and its
mountains, and I will deduce the race,' is surely a glaring exaggeration.
{190} The monarchical, aristocratical, and democratic elements of the
Roman constitution are referred to.
{193a} Polybius, vi. 9. [Greek].
{193b} [Greek].
{193c} The various stages are [Greek].
{197a} Polybius, xii. 24.
{197b} Polybius, i. 4, viii. 4, specially; and really passim.
{198a} He makes one exception.
{198b} Polybius, viii. 4.
{199} Polybius, xvi. 12.
{200a} Polybius, viii. 4: [Greek].
{200b} Polybius resembled Gibbon in many respects. Like him he held
that all religions were to the philosopher equally false, to the vulgar
equally true, to the statesman equally useful.
{203} Cf. Polybius, xii. 25, [Greek].
{205} Polybius, xxii. 22.
{207} I mean particularly as regards his sweeping denunciation of the
complete moral decadence of Greek society during the Peloponnesian War
which, from what remains to us of Athenian literature, we know must have
been completely exaggerated. Or, rather, he is looking at men merely in
their political dealings: and in politics the man who is personally
honourable and refined will not scruple to do anything for his party.
{211} Polybius, xii. 25.
{253} As an instance of the inaccuracy of published reports of this
lecture, it may be mentioned that all previous versions give this passage
as The artist may trace the depressed revolution of Bunthorne simply to
the lack of technical means!
{317} The Two Paths, Lect. III. p. 123 (1859 ed.).
{328a} Edition for Continental circulation only. Leipzig: Bernhard
Tauchnitz, vol. 4056. 1908 (August).
{328b} Edition for Continental circulation only. Leipzig: Bernhard
Tauchnitz, vol. 4056. 1908 (August).