Title: Osrac, the self-sufficient, and other poems, with a memoir of The Late Oscar Wilde. (Portraits and fac-simile letters). By J. M. Stuart-Young
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">4to. pp. 120 (including ff. [6] of plates). Original decorated cloth. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">"Oscar Wilde. A memoir", pp. 1-40, dated Conakry, West Africa, May 1st, 1905, includes a review of Wilde's De profundis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">John Moray Stuart-Young (1881-1939) sought a reputational head-start for his own verse–a serious, life-long, devotion–by enlisting ‘the late Oscar Wilde’ as his sponsor, decorating his own Osrac the Self-sufficient, and Other Poems with flattering facsimile letters from Wilde, and a warm inscription on the photographic frontispiece portrait, all forgeries.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103550" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>