Poems by Oscar Wilde
With the Ballad of Reading Gaol
Twelfth Edition
| First Published— | |
| Ravenna | 1878 |
| Poems | 1881 |
| ,, Fifth Edition | 1882 |
| The Sphinx | 1894 |
| The Ballad of Reading Gaol | 1898 |
| First Issued by Methuen and Co. (Limited Editions on Handmade Paper and Japanese Vellum) | March 1908 |
| Seventh Edition (F’cap. 8vo). | September 1909 |
| Eighth Edition (,,,, ) | November 1909 |
| Ninth Edition (,,,, ) | December 1909 |
| Tenth Edition (,,,, ) | November 1910 |
| Eleventh Edition (,,,, ) | December 1911 |
| Twelfth Edition (,,,, ) | April 1913 |
Note
This collection of Wilde’s Poems contains the volume of 1881 in its entirety, ‘The Sphinx’, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol,’ and ‘Ravenna.’ Of the Uncollected Poems published in the Uniform Edition of 1908, a few, including the Translations from the Greek and the Polish, are omitted. Two new poems, ‘Désespoir’ and ‘Pan,’ which I have recently discovered in manuscript, are now printed for the first time. Particulars as to the original publication of each poem will be found in ‘A Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde,’ by Stuart Mason, London 1907.
Robert Ross.