The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Annotated)
This ebook includes a biographical introduction, a short critical analysis of Oscar Wilde and a brief introduction to this work. Published in 1898 under the coded name C.3.3., The Ballad of Reading Gaol was an extended poem inspired by the hanging, in 1896, of a former Trooper of the Royal Horse...
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This ebook includes a biographical introduction, a short critical analysis of Oscar Wilde and a brief introduction to this work. Published in 1898 under the coded name C.3.3., The Ballad of Reading Gaol was an extended poem inspired by the hanging, in 1896, of a former Trooper of the Royal Horse Guards, one Charles Thomas Wooldridge, who had cut the throat of his wife. It wasn't until the seventh print run that it became known who had written the poem, though by then, even with Wilde's reputation in tatters, it made little odds given the popularity of the poem.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00CPQNFRW
Publish date: 2013-05-08
Publisher: Moorside Press
Pages no: 72
Edition language: English
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 bo...
Larry Durrell recita la cárcel de Reading a Leslie camino de que le juzguen por agresión, todo lo cual después de sobornar al juez con sellos de coleccionista. El nombre de la cárcel me parece muy chachi, por cierto.El efecto cómico... Se debe a que Wilde está muy serio. Todavía está presa de la imp...
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