Ravenna and Other Poems

by Oscar Wilde

25 chapters1h 21mEnglish1913

About this book

Oscar Wilde's poem Ravenna won the prestigious Newdigate Prize for Poetry at Oxford University. It was recited by the author in the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford on June 26th 1878. The poem describes Wilde's reaction to his first visit to Ravenna in Italy. Many of the other poems in this recording also reflect Wilde's great love of Italian life and culture. Some also show his admiration for the English Romantic Poets, Keats, Shelley and Byron. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Chapters (25)

1Ravenna

1684

2Ave Imperatrix

497

3To Milton

4Louis Napoleon

5Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria

6Sonnet on Approaching Italy

7San Miniato

8Italia

9Sonnet Written in Holy Week at Genoa

10Rome Unvisited

247

11Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel

12Easter Day

13E Tenebris

14Madonna Mia

15Endymion

181

16Magdalen Walks

132

17Theocritus, a Villanelle

18The Grave of Keats

19The Grave of Shelley

20By the Arno

113

21Phèdre

22Sonnets written at the Lyceum Theatre (I.Portia; II.Queen Henrietta Maria; III.Camma)

256

23At Verona

24On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters

25The Harlot's House

171

Ravenna and Other Poems

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