This ensured that Wilde's name (by then notorious) did not appear on the front cover. His final vision of the world is not frivolity, but one of suffering.Īlthough Wilde never hid his authorship of the poem, it was published under the name 'C.3.3.', which stood for building C, floor 3, cell 3, at Reading. According to Wilde the greater the crime, the more necessary charity.
It inspired in Wildes mind an illustration of the way we are all malefactors, all in need of forgiveness. He had been found guilty of slitting his wifes throat with a razor. Trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge was someone that Wilde had seen many times during his imprisonment. 9 Anne Varty points out the allusion in A Preface to Oscar Wilde (London 1998) p. During his imprisonment, a rare thing occurred: a hanging. chef doeuvre being The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. Wilde was found guilty of homosexual offences in 1895 and was sentenced to two years hard labour in prison, being transferred to Reading, Berkshire in November 1895. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol ( / r.d.del /) on. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a famous poem by Oscar Wilde, written after his release from Reading prison on.
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