The Harlot’s House and Other Poems
About this book
Music spills from a brightly lit house where the dancers begin to look like spectral figures. Oscar Wilde’s title poem turns an encounter in the street into a troubling scene of desire and estrangement.
This collection also includes Requiescat, Madonna Mia, Panthea and other poems. John Vassos supplies the visual interpretations, using sharply organised shapes and theatrical contrasts to give the verse another expressive form. The illustrated title page names Vassos and dates the E. P. Dutton volume 1929.
Cite this edition
Oscar Wilde; John Vassos. The Harlot’s House and Other Poems. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1929; interpretations by John Vassos. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1929. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/books/the-harlot-s-house
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