Smart, melancholy, and morbidly beautiful. Poetry seems to suit Oscar Wilde so much better than the medium of the novel, where he has to worry about things like voice and characterization. With poetry he can feature his strengths almost exclusively; namely, his ability to put drop-dead gorgeous words in an order that renders them suitably meaningful in absence of a lengthy plot.Then again, as a poetry neophyte, I'd expect pretty much any competent poetry to look beautiful to my eye. And this certainly is that. I found The Ballad of Reading Gaol beautiful and heartbreaking and even more devastating considering Wilde's own person history. A must-read.
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