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Oscar Wilde

Fellows Find: The goat-footed paganism of E. E. Cummings

June 8, 2016 - Jennifer Rosenblitt

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings, undated, doodling of fauns and satyrs. From ‘Sketches’ by E.E. Cummings. Copyright (©) by the Trustees for the E.E. Cummings Trust.
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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.” [Read more…] about Fellows Find: The goat-footed paganism of E. E. Cummings

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: A. C. Swinburne, Classicism, classics, E. E. cummings, Edward Estlin Cummings, Fellows Find, Fellowships, Greek mythology, juvenilia, Oscar Wilde, Pan, poetry, Poets

Incoming fellow rebuilds an icon’s life after exile

May 9, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

[Read more…] about Incoming fellow rebuilds an icon’s life after exile

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: 2016-2017 fellowships, Cobden-Sanderson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Doves Press, Eric Gill, Fellowships, Frank Harris, George Ives, J. G. Ballard, John Singer Sargent Murray, Kelmscott Press, Lewis Carroll, Lord Alfred Douglas, Madame X, Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, Project REVEAL, The Picture of Dorian Gray, William Blake, William Rothenstein

Discovery of books from the library of Oscar Wilde

April 13, 2016 - Gerald Cloud

Oscar Wilde in New York, 1882, from the Oscar Wilde Literary File at the Harry Ransom Center.

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.

[Read more…] about Discovery of books from the library of Oscar Wilde

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: Andre Raffalovich, Arthur Goddard, bibliophile, Cicero, De Profundis, Dublin, Edward Freeman, James Thomason, journalism, Lord Alfred Douglas, Magdalen College, marginalia, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde Literary File, Oscar’s Books, Oxford, personal libraries, Theodore Tilton, Thomas Wright, Trinity College

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