![]() ![]() On his release from prison in 1897 he lived in obscurity in Europe, and died in Paris in 1900. Smithers), a long poem describing the horrors Wilde faced in prison, was. In 1895 he was found guilty of gross indecency, and he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol from 1895 to 1897. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge. During the 1890s, Wilde faced three criminal and civil trials involving his relationship with the poet Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde spent mid-1897 with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand, where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen. In spite of efforts towards prison reform by Major Nelson, the Governor who had. During his imprisonment, a hanging took place.Ĭharles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. Some is realistic, some is romantic: some poetry, some propaganda (1962:654). Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895. “The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol in 1897. Although I like to think of this poem as more of a story but that is just my persepective. The poem is titled “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.” And boy is it a long poem. This week I have picked number 16 from the top 100 Irish poems list. ![]()
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