The Harlot's House (Illustrated) Oscar Wilde Author
by Oscar Wilde
2021-04-03 15:40:01
The Harlot's House (Illustrated) Oscar Wilde Author
by Oscar Wilde
2021-04-03 15:40:01
Proofed and corrected from the original edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)***The Harlot's House is lyrical poem. The poet is standing in the street outside the house of the Scarlet Woman and looks up at the windows of which the...
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Proofed and corrected from the original edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)***The Harlot's House is lyrical poem. The poet is standing in the street outside the house of the Scarlet Woman and looks up at the windows of which the blinds are drawn down. It is night, and on the blinds appear the silhouettes of the dancing figures, the marionettes within.In this poem Oscar Wilde overcame his objection to the use of words ending in ette for which he professed a real artistic horror. The last lines of the poem in which he speaks of the dawn fleeing down the street like a frightened girl are very beautiful. Perhaps the tone of the whole thing, like that of The Sphynx, is not robust, but, as we have said, Oscar Wilde was then impregnated with the essence of Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal. Althea Gyles's hectic visions which, in her illustrations for Wilde's The Harlot's House, probably reached the acme of the period's realisation of the weird. She is of course really of the Irish symbolists, and not one of the nineties' group at all.
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