1. Compare Josephine M. Guy, “Self-Plagiarism, Creativity and Craftsmanship in Oscar Wilde,” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 41, no. 1 (1998): 8.
2. For a detailed account of this, see Philip E. Smith and Michael S. Helfand’s edition of Wilde’s Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
3. Sandra Siegel, “Wilde’s Use and Abuse of Aphorisms,” Newsletter of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada 12, no. 1 (1986): 17.
4. Simon Joyce, “Sexual Politics and the Aesthetics of Crime: Oscar Wilde in the Nineties,” English Literary History 69, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 501.
5. Isaac Watts, Divine and Moral Songs for the Use of Children (London: John Van Voorst, 1848), 86.