![]() It was not commonly known, until the 7th printing in June 1899, that C.3.3. This ensured that Wilde's name – by then notorious – did not appear on the poem's front cover. The finished poem was published by Leonard Smithers in 1898 under the name C.3.3., which stood for cell block C, landing 3, cell 3. This had a profound effect on Wilde, inspiring the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves." He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. 1866 – 7 July 1896) had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a 109-stanza poem composed while Wilde was in exile in France after his release from prison in Reading, Berkshire, England, where he had Read More Feb. There is despair throughout the poem as the prisoners feel their own shame and watch the death of their fellow prisoner. ![]() To mark the 125th anniversary of Oscar Wildes release from Reading Gaol. The Ballad of Reading Gaolwhile far from related plot-wisedoes have some themes that I imagine would have resonated with someone at the time. ![]() Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.ĭuring his imprisonment, on Saturday 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. The winning and commended poems from the Ballads for Reading Gaol poetry. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol on or about. ![]()
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