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  2. The Harlot's House - Wikipedia

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    A holograph manuscript of an early version of "The Harlot's House", dated April 1882, is preserved in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles.The final version of the poem was, according to Wilde's friend and biographer Robert Sherard, written in the spring of 1883 while the author was staying at the Hôtel Voltaire in Paris, and this account is probably accurate.

  3. Althea Gyles - Wikipedia

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    The Secret Rose, 1897, cover by Althea Gyles. Although Gyles continued to work, at writing and painting, she also drifted and had poor health. She gravitated towards a variety of movements and interests, which included horoscope writing, Buddhism, anti-vivisection, and vegetarianism, while being supported by dissatisfied patrons such as Clifford Bax, who considered her a parasite.

  4. George Sylvester Viereck - Wikipedia

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    His heroes were Jesus Christ, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Oscar Wilde; his short story The House of the Vampire is heavily inspired by Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. [2] While still in college, in 1904, George Sylvester Viereck, with the help of literary critic Ludwig Lewisohn , published his first collection of poems. [ 6 ]

  5. 30 Best Christmas Poems That Will Fill Your Hearts With ... - AOL

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    And tree and house, and hill and lake, Are frosted like a wedding cake. – Robert Lewis Stevenson Related: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas: The Story and Trivia Behind the Beloved Classic ...

  6. Poems in Prose (Wilde collection) - Wikipedia

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    Two of these prose poems, "The House of Judgment" and "The Disciple", had appeared earlier in The Spirit Lamp, an Oxford undergraduate magazine, on 17 February and 6 June 1893 respectively. A set of illustrations for the prose poems was completed by Wilde's friend and frequent illustrator, Charles Ricketts , who never published the pen-and-ink ...

  7. Oscar Wilde bibliography - Wikipedia

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    This is a bibliography of works by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), a late-Victorian Irish writer. Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for The Importance of Being Earnest, and as the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray; Wilde's oeuvre includes criticism, poetry, children's fiction, and a large selection of reviews, lectures and journalism.

  8. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas Full Poem and History - AOL

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    The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas, was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called The Sentinel.

  9. Anatomy of a Poet - Wikipedia

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    The following poetry features on the album. It was selected and read by Colin Wilson and recorded on location, Gorran Haven, Cornwall in December 1993. "Anatomy of a Poet" includes reading from "Cynara" by Ernest Dowson "Motive", includes reading from "The Harlot's House" by Oscar Wilde