Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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Drafts, with variations, titled "Wilde in Oxford". Text begins: "To Irishmen, and perhaps to the English-speaking world generally, Oxford is to the mind what Paris to the body...."; one variation sub-titled "First Truancies".

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Draft with variations. Version 1 titled "Rome and Greece: Manningism", which begins: "Wilde was at home in Oxford now...." Version 2 titled "An Aesthetic Youth", which begins: "Voyages to Greece were not common in the 1870s though Byron had given them literary precendent...." Version 3 titled "An Incomplete Aesthete: Joys of Rustication", which begins: "Voyages to Greece were not common in the seventies of the last century. That they were necessary to a classical course...."

Scope and Contents Draft in three versions. Version 1 titled, "Greece and Rome", which begins "Wilde followed his parallel impulsions throughout his time at Oxford...." Version 2, with variations, titled "An Incomplete Aesthete: Joys of Rustication", which begins "Voyages to Greece were not commonm in the seventies of the last century. That they were necessary to a classical course in Oxford...." Version 3 titled, "Setting Sail: On the Job Path", which begins: "Summer diminished Wilde's euphoria. He had...

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Draft titled, "Oscar Wilde, Poet: Crossroads", which begins "Summer diminished Wilde's euphoria. He had an anxious time over his Bray houses...." First and only page of a variation titled, "Delaring His Genius: Marking Time", which begins: "Moving presented problems for which Wilde's enraged exit from Frank Miles's house had not provided...."

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Draft with variations, titled "Delaring His Genius: New Prospects", which begins: "The rage with which Wilde had torn out of Frank Miles's house was succeeded in calm by the problem of finding new lodgings...."

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Draft in two versions, each with variations. Version 1 titled, "Crossroads", which begins: "Wilde departed regretfully, in December 1878, from the refined surroundings and assured friendships he had known at Oxford...." Version 2 titled, "Declaring His Genius: Bunthorne Abroad", which begins: "Moving presented problems for which Wilde's grand exit from Frank Miles's house had not provided...."

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Draft with variations, titled, "Two Kinds of Stage: Wilde Nubile", which begins: Wilde stayed for a time with his mother at 116 Park Street, Grosvenor Square...."

Scope and Contents Draft in three versions, each with variations. Version 1 titled, "The Anti-Renaissance", which begins: "A London newspoaper spoke of Wilde's American tour as a self-confessed failure...."; additional materials are comprised of a partial draft and draft fragments, some with additional text taped onto existing text. Version 2 titled, "Matrimonial Matters: With and Against the Grain", which begins: "Back in London, Wilde appears to have quickly borrowed 1200 pounds...." Version 3 titled,...

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Draft in four versions. Version one, an early version, is imcomplete. Version 2 and 3 titled, "1884-1886: Adventures in Doubleness", which begins: "The ambiguous nature of Paris as patroness of Wilde's bateau ivre on its wedding trip was reflected in notes he jotted down...." Version 3 titled, "Disciple to Master: New Anatomies", which begins: "At Oxford Wilde had made the problem of becoming or not becoming a Roman Catholic the tense center of much of his verse...."

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Draft in three versions, each with variations. Version 1 titled, "Countering the Renaissance", which begins: "On his return to Londonn Wilde was iin excellent spirits...." Version 2 titled, "1887-1889: Disciple to Master", which begins: "Wilde was thirty-two before he began to discover how he might fully express his personality...." Version 3 titled, "The Age of Dorian: 1889-1891", which begins: "The nineties began in 1889 and ended in 1895...."