Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

At the end of the complete text will be found a shorter version based on the original draft of thepoem. This is included for the benefit of reciters and their audiences who have found the entirepoem too long for declamation. I have tried to obviate a difficulty, without officiously exercisingthe ungrateful prerogatives of a literary executor, by falling back on a text which represents the author’s first scheme for a poem—never intended of course for recitation.   (Tanıtım Bülteninden)  )