![]() ![]() It was not commonly known, until the 7th printing in June 1899, that C.3.3. This collection of Wilde’s Poems contains the volume of 1881 in its entirety, ‘The Sphinx’, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol,’ and ‘Ravenna.’Of the Uncollected Poems published in the Uniform Edition of 1908, a few, including the Translations from the Greek and the Polish, are omitted. ![]() 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. 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. In exile, and shattered by his experiences in gaol, he uses the trial and execution of a soldier for the murder of his wife to. He had served a twoyear sentence for gross indecency after his homosexuality was exposed in a famous trial. 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. This is the opening section of a long poem written by Oscar Wilde after his release from Reading Gaol. ![]()
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