The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
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Originally published | February 13, 1898 |
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Authors | Oscar Wilde |
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ID | 1075516 |
About The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.