The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

UK

Oscar Wilde 저자(글)

Penguin Books, Limited (UK) · 2010년 04월 01일

책 소개

Twenty-four important works focus on Wilde's poetic legacy, including "The Ballad of Reading Gaol, " "The Sphinx," "The Grave of Keats," "The Harlot's House," "To L. L.," 19 others.

작가정보

저자(글) Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854, the son of an eminent eye-surgeon and a nationalist poetess who wrote under the pseudonym of 'Speranza'. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement.

Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. He published a largely unsuccessful volume of poems in 1881 and in the next year undertook a lecture-tour of the United States in order to promote the D'Oyle Carte production of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, Patience.

After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies ? Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895.

Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen extravagantly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.


오스카 와일드는 1854년 10월 16일 아일랜드 더블린에서 태어났다. 그는 트리니티 칼리지에서 고전문학을 전공했으며 1874년 옥스퍼드의 맥덜린 칼리지에 들어가 시 <라베나>로 뉴다이제스트 상을 받았다. '예술을 위한 예술'의 개념을 주장하는 유미주의 운동의 초기 리더로서, 와일드는 문학과 사회단체에서 중요한 인물이 되었다. 그의 동화집 <행복한 왕자와 다른 이야기들>은 이후 소설 <도리언 그레이의 초상>과 <석류의 집>등 창작에 많은 영향을 미쳤다. 그가 더 유명해진 것은 희곡 <원더미어 부인의 부채>가 대중에 소개된 이후였다. <중요치 않은 여성> <진지함의 중요성>으로 극작가로서 명성을 얻기 시작했다. 1900년 11월 30일 사회 부조리에 대한 날카로운 위트와 다가오는 새로운 세기의 미에 대한 예견자로서 천부적인 재능을 지녔던 와일드는 예술적 영감의 도시 파리에서 험난하고 고단했던 생을 마감했다.

기본정보

ISBN	9780141192673 ( 0141192674 )
발행(출시)일자	2010년 04월 01일
쪽수	192쪽
크기	129 * 197 * 17 mm / 144 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어