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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde

Hardcover | Pages: 37 pages

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Title	:	The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Author	:	Oscar Wilde
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 37 pages
Published	:	December 1st 1997 by Trafalgar Square Publishing (first published 1896)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Fiction. Literature

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This dramatically illustrated collector's edition marks the centenary of Oscar Wilde's release from prison in 1898 and the publication of his anguished poetic masterpiece. One hundred years after his release from Reading Gaol, the life and work of Oscar Wilde has lost none of its fascination. In his day, his wit and writings enchanted and scandalized society in equal measure; his downfall came at the height of his powers. Devastated by his notorious trial for indecency, imprisoned for ``homosexual offenses,'' he was to spend two ruinous years in solitary confinement. As he was later to tell Andre Gide, Reading Gaol ``was not fit for dogs. I thought I would go mad.'' The Ballad was written from personal experience, and there was to be no more writing after this. As Wilde observed: ``Something is killed in me.'' Bankrupt, disgraced, and in exile, Wilde was to die not long after his release at the age of 46. His final resting place is the cemetery of Pere Lachaise in Paris. His tomb bears an inscription from The Ballad of Reading Gaol: ``And alien tears will fill for him/Pity's long broken urn/For his mourners will be outcast men/And outcasts always mourn.'' This commemorative edition of the poem is illustrated with the powerfully moving wood engravings of Garrick Palmer. 48 pp 5 x 8 8 wood engravings

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Original Title:	The Ballad of Reading Gaol
ISBN:	1570761035 (ISBN13: 9781570761034)
Edition Language:	English

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This is definitely not the Wilde many people are familiar with- here he eschews the characteristic wit in favour of a sorrowful, dark lament about prison life and the concept of prison in general. This poem isn't in the vein of some of Wilde's more well-known works and honestly, it's all the better for it.Read the poem here and read more about Wilde's time in prison here.

The end of Oscar Wildes life is tragic to contemplate. This poem that he wrote, this last offering is terribly sad, but provides a certain balm. I can only hope writing it helped him a little. I loved the tone of the poem. As the story plods along, you see from his eyes and feel what it must have been like to be imprisoned. What I most appreciated was how he handled the theme of hypocrisy. He seems to be saying if we are all guilty, if each man kills the thing he loves, and if the God the

Ballad of Reading Gaol - Oscar Wilde  I don't read a lot of poetry as such because my favorites rhyme and are silly; so nothing since Old Possum really. (In my defense, I pay a lot of attention to song lyrics, and enjoy a slant rhyme or an unusual rhythm, otherwise, as you may have noticed, I read a lot of children's books which meet both my criteria but aren't usually labeled "poetry"). I honestly can't remember if I read this in its entirety back in the day: there were a lot of English

I never would have thought that I'd love macabre poetry but I guess between this and Edgar Allen Poe, I most certainly do. I absolutely loved this dark poem. Wilde is reflecting on his time in prison as he and other prisoners watch the final process of another prisoner's hanging sentence for killing his wife. He describes his first thoughts of watching the prisoner walk towards his death, not yet knowing what the prisoner's crime was. "I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon

Discovered this incredible poem when I was reading an article about Humility. As an example the author used Oscar Wilde's fall from celebrity and ease into shame and suffering in the Reading Prison. This Ballad of the same name describes some of the horrors of that place which Wilde experienced first hand. I know prisons today are still harsh, but then they were beyond anything imaginable. Wilde's experience there led to his conversion.

Ahhhhhhhhh!!! Okay. I know I just talked about Wilde's poems but this one over here is on an entirely different level. Would give it ten stars if I could. It is an absolute masterpiece, he is an absolute masterpiece, made me shed some tears here and there (that might be because I truly love the man with a burning passion but never-mind that), raised every hair on my skin. So a little bit of context for those who might need it:Oscar Wilde, "glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky...*The man had killed the thing he loved And so he had to die.Yet each man kills the thing he loves *What word of grace in such a place Could help a brother's soul?*And wondered why men knelt to pray Who never prayed before.*For he who live more lives than one More deaths than one must die.To suffer while witnessing the prisoner's hell or the one who mourns the life the first one took