High price for works by Wilde, Yeats

Handwritten works by two of our most acclaimed writers, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats, plus portraits of the artists have sold for more than €154,000 (£130,000).

The works were sold as part of the sale of The Roy Davids Collection Part III: Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets at Bonhams at New Bond Street in London yesterday.

The big hit of the sale was Oscar Wilde’s very early poem, Heart’s Yearnings, written when he was an undergraduate at Magdalen College Oxford in 1874.