Provides students of Wilde with texts of Wilde's 119 poems and poems in prose, together with the publishing history of each poem, locations of manuscripts, variants and emendations, and a detailed commentary on allusions and echoes, imagery, and points of biographical interest. The editorial apparatus is meticulous and exhaustive ... As ancillary evidence for Wilde's later importance as a major cultural phenomenon, they [the poems] will reward more serious attention from scholars than they have previously received, and to that end this edition will deservedly become a standard work