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From: The Independent - London | Date: May 2, 2001| Author: CHRISTOPHER HAWTREE | Copyright information

THE FIRST volume of Wilde's Complete Works suggests that, far from being much given to green carnations, he enjoyed shades of yellow ("jonquil") in an 1889 group of love poems. "Remorse", subtitled "A Study in Saffron", describes one who "lies / Like amber on the silken sheets" - ...

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