The Picture of Dorian Gray letters sent to him by the cultural critic Walter Pater. Passages revised for the novel Passages added to the novel The uncensored edition In 2011, the Belknap Press published "The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition". The edition includes text that was deleted by JM Stoddart, Wilde's initial editor, before the story's publication in "Lippincott's Monthly Magazine" in 1890. The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of "Lippincott's Monthly Magazine". Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor
The Last Picture in the World The Last Picture in the World The Last Picture in the World is a poem written by Canadian poet Al Purdy in 1999. It appears in the book "Beyond Remembering: the collected poems of Al Purdy" along with other poems that he wrote over his lifetime. <poem> A hunched grey shape framed by leaves with lake water behind standing on our little point of land like a small monk in a green monastery meditating except that it's alive brooding immobile permanent for half an hour a blue heron and it occurs to me that if I were to die at