THE GOLD ROOMS OF WILDE AND KLIMT
—And the Vienna Inheritance of an Oscar Wilde Poem—
‘In the Gold Room’ is a poem that has attracted limited attention since it first appeared in Oscar Wilde’s self-published debut volume of Poems (1881).
Since then the poem has dimmed in the memory of even the seasoned scholar—and a visit to a museum of Germanic art hardly seemed likely to bring it back into the light.
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