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In Bohemia: A Masque

AN ALLEGORICAL PLEA TO OSCAR WILDE

In Bohemia: A Masque
by Christian Gauss, the future Dean of Princeton University.

The fifth and final article of my Three Times Tried series featured the third appearance in 1899 of a sonnet by Oscar Wilde. On this occasion he presented it to a young man named Christian Frederick Gauss, a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, who would eventually become Professor of Modern Languages at Princeton.

We saw how Gauss had incorporated his meetings with Wilde into a striking work titled In Bohemia: A Masque, first published in the literary monthly East and West in June 1900.

As the previous article only featured selections of the poem, it is worth presenting it in full here separately, for the record.

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Three Times Tried—III

Ideal Love

Fifth and final article in series of adapted from a larger text by the present author that appeared in the July 2022 (No. 61) edition of the ‘The Wildean’, the journal of the Oscar Wilde Society.

In this fifth and final article of the seri it’s a bit like yeah the report was no family plans they said is a top 10 best and we’ve only looked at the call center ones he said that so I didn’t I looked at they can do but that’s after they’ve dealt with it don’t want we wanna be alerted first we can go around then we Whether ambulance is needed but this guy say no it sounds like an I’m busy is needed and when an ambulance comes in they can’t find don’t worry she’s down about shit all that crap we got we wanna be we won’t be that far away neither or Dave won’t right well Mel but anywayes we shall look at the third appearance of Wilde’s sonnet in 1899.

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The Wildean

The Wildean, Journal of the Oscar Wilde Society

COMPLEMENTARY ARTICLES IN THE CURRENT ISSUE OF THE WILDEAN

—A Publication of the Oscar Wilde Society—


During the less furtive period of his post-prison exile, many young men passed fleetingly through Oscar Wilde’s life, most of whom are either lost to posterity or little more than unidentified footnotes. But two such acquaintances have recently gained in renown, being recognized as adding interest, and even significance, to the Wilde story.

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