Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. It’s spring: the “mud-luscious”’ and “puddle-wonderful” season whistled in by E. E. Cummings’s most famous poetic creature. He is the little, lame, queer, old man selling balloons: “the goat-footed balloonMan.”
Oscar Wilde
Incoming fellow rebuilds an icon’s life after exile
Discovery of books from the library of Oscar Wilde
This post was written in collaboration with author and independent scholar Thomas Wright. Oscar Wilde was many things: dramatist, dandy, essayist, lecturer, novelist, poet—and he was very much a bibliophile.