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    Impressions of America
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    Impressions of America

    By Oscar Wilde

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    "Impressions of America" is a sketch by famed Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde about his visit to America in 1882. Interest in the Aesthetic School of literature, of which he was already the acknowledged master, had sometime previously spread to the United States, and it is said that the production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "Patience,' in which he and his disciples were held up to ridicule, fired him to pay a visit to the States to give some lectures explaining what he meant by Aestheticism, hoping thereby to interest, and possibly to instruct and elevate his American audience.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 21, 2019
    ISBN4057664650627
    Impressions of America
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    Oscar Wilde

    Born in Ireland in 1856, Oscar Wilde was a noted essayist, playwright, fairy tale writer and poet, as well as an early leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His plays include: An Ideal Husband, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, and Lady Windermere's Fan. Among his best known stories are The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Canterville Ghost.

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      Impressions of America - Oscar Wilde

      Oscar Wilde

      Impressions of America

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664650627

      Table of Contents

      I. LE JARDIN.

      II. LA MER.

      PREFACE.

      IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA.

      OSCAR WILDE IN AMERICA.

      I.

      LE JARDIN.

      Table of Contents

      The lily’s withered chalice falls

      Around its rod of dusty gold,

      And from the beech trees on the wold

      The last wood-pigeon coos and calls.

      The gaudy leonine sunflower

      Hangs black and barren on its stalk,

      And down the windy garden walk

      The dead leaves scatter—hour by hour.

      Pale privet-petals white as milk

      Are blown into a snowy mass;

      The roses lie upon the grass,

      Like little shreds of crimson silk.

      II.

      LA MER.

      Table of Contents

      A white mist drifts across the shrouds,

      A wild moon in this wintry sky

      Gleams like an angry lion’s eye

      Out of a mane of tawny clouds.

      The muffled steersman at the wheel

      Is but a shadow in the gloom;—

      And in the throbbing engine room

      Leap the long rods of polished steel.

      The shattered storm has left its trace

      Upon this huge and heaving dome,

      For the thin threads of yellow foam

      Float on the waves like ravelled lace.

      Oscar Wilde.

      PREFACE.

      Table of Contents

      Oscar Wilde visited America in the year 1882. Interest in the Æsthetic School, of which

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