Poem

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is known in Russia primarily as the author of brilliant dramatic works: the novel "Portrait of Dorian Gray", fairy tales, parables and numerous aphorisms. Meanwhile, his work began with poetry. In 1878, he still won the prestigious prize of the University of Oxford for the poem of Rovenna - and ended with the famous "Ballad of the Reding prison", written after liberation from the imprisonment.
In this collection, we included the most successful translations of large -format poetic works of Wilde from our point of view, along with original texts in English, as well as the preface of the compiler, shedding light on the history of the creation of these works and their place in the work of the famous Englishman