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The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Oscar WildePublish date:2020-11-18Pages:64

Language:EnglishPublisher:Cosimo ClassicsISBN-13:9781646793198ISBN-10:1646793196UPC:9781646793198Book Category:Social Science, PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, EuropeanBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.15 inchesWeight:0.1698Product ID:SCRW16NTQS

"Like two doomed ships that pass in storm

We had crossed each other's way:

But we made no sign, we said no word,

We had no word to say"

-Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

The poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) by Oscar Wilde, was inspired by the two years he spent in the jail of Reading Gaol, England. There he experienced the hanging of Royal Horse Guards trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge, convicted for the murder of his wife. This poem, dedicated to Wooldridge, describes not only his execution, but is also an indictment of the Victorian penal system and a plea for reform of prison conditions.

This poem, Wilde's last publication, was very successful and assured he had a steady income until his death at a young age in 1900.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Cosimo ClassicsISBN-13:9781646793198ISBN-10:1646793196UPC:9781646793198Book Category:Social Science, PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, EuropeanBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.15 inchesWeight:0.1698Product ID:SCRW16NTQS

Wilde, Oscar: - OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) was a celebrated Irish-born playwright, short story writer, poet, and personality in Victorian London. He is best known for his involvement in the aesthetic movement and his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as his many plays, such as Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband. During his imprisonment for gross indecency, he wrote De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

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"Like two doomed ships that pass in storm

We had crossed each other's way:

But we made no sign, we said no word,

We had no word to say"

-Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

The poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) by Oscar Wilde, was inspired by the two years he spent in the jail of Reading Gaol, England. There he experienced the hanging of Royal Horse Guards trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge, convicted for the murder of his wife. This poem, dedicated to Wooldridge, describes not only his execution, but is also an indictment of the Victorian penal system and a plea for reform of prison conditions.

This poem, Wilde's last publication, was very successful and assured he had a steady income until his death at a young age in 1900.

Wilde, Oscar: - OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) was a celebrated Irish-born playwright, short story writer, poet, and personality in Victorian London. He is best known for his involvement in the aesthetic movement and his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as his many plays, such as Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband. During his imprisonment for gross indecency, he wrote De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Publisher: Cosimo Classics

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Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde

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