A collection of critical pieces on Oscar Wilde, comprised of the following: My First Meeting with Oscar Wilde [William Butler Yeats] • The Catastrophe [William Butler Yeats] • Wilde in Phase 19 [William Butler Yeats] • In Memoriam [André Gide] • A Novel by Mr. Oscar Wilde [Walter Pater] • In Honorem Doriani Creatorisque Eius [Lionel Johnson] • The Destroyer of a Soul [Lionel Johnson] • The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel [John Betjeman] • The Dead Poet [Alfred Douglas] • Sonnet on Wilde [Alfred Douglas] • C 33 [Hart Crane] • Fiction as Allegory: The Picture of Dorian Gray [Edouard Roditi] • Oscar Wilde: The Poet of 'Salome' [James Joyce] • Wilde as Dramatist St. John Hankin] • Overtures to 'Salome' [Richard Ellmann] • My Memories of Oscar Wilde [George Bernard Shaw] • The Unimportance of Being Oscar [Mary McCarthy] • 'The Importance of Being Earnest' [Eric Bentley] • An Improbable Life [W. H. Auden] • Christ and Wilde [G. Wilson Knight] • The Social Rebel [George Woodcock] • Wilde and Nietzsche [Thomas Mann] • About Oscar Wilde [Jorge Luis Borges] • Oscar Wilde [Brendan Behan]