The rise of historical criticism, 1879
Scope and Contents note
This subseries includes manuscripts of speeches, plays, poems, and other literary works created by Oscar Wilde and his coterie. Many are in the author's hand. Virtually all of the titles given to the works have been supplied by later catalogers and scholars. They are arranged alphabetically by author or originator, and then by title. Further arrangement is by date.
Dates
- Creation: 1879
Creator
- From the Collection: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Organization)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 38.36 Linear Feet (90 boxes plus bound volumes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Existence and Location of Copies note
Also available on microfilm: Wilde 26-1
General Physical Description note
3 MS notebooks. Part 1 originally bound in soft black morocco, with bookplate ofJohn B. Stetson ; morocco case now stored separately in archives. Parts 2-3 were removed from original brown paper jackets. Notebooks re-housed in linen clamshell box. Original ms. of this essay, written for the Chancellor's English Essay Prize at Oxford, probably in 1879. Part 1 was first published in America in 1905 and was reprinted in vol. VII of the 1908 collected edition of Wilde's prose works; parts 2-3 were first published in vol. XIV of that edition. Wilde's title:Historical Criticism among the Ancients.
General note
Clark shelfmark W6721M3 R595 [1879]? Bound
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository