Das Buch verkaufte sich außerordentlich gut und musste schon nach wenigen Wochen in höherer Zahl neu aufgelegt werden. “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” is Wilde’s most successful poem and was his last great work written before his death in 1900. He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on …
He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed. He was now free, but a broken man, and a broke one. Trotzdem dürfte den meisten Zeitgenossen bekannt gewesen sein, wer der Verfasser war, da Wildes Inhaftierung großes Aufsehen erregt hatte.
Publication date 1898 Publisher London, Leonard Smithers Collection cdl; americana Digitizing sponsor MSN Contributor University of California Libraries Language English. Oscar Wilde schrieb das Gedicht im Juli 1897, ein halbes Jahr nach seiner Entlassung aus dem Gefängnis. Er überarbeitete anschließend sein Manuskript gemeinsam mit seinem Freund und Lektor Die erste Auflage, die im Februar 1898 erschien, wurde nicht unter seinem Namen, sondern unter dem Pseudonym „C.3.3.“, der Nummer seiner Gefängniszelle, veröffentlicht. The Ballad of Reading Gaol By Oscar Wilde About this Poet No name is more inextricably bound to the aesthetic movement of the 1880s and 1890s in England than that of Oscar Wilde.
By Maleha Khan Creative Copywriter, Justis Publishing Limited. By Oscar Wilde Title: De Profundis, The Ballad Of Reading Gaol & Others. “Books were the great saviour inside, and I sincerely believe books and education are the great rehabilitators.” This, from a prisoner who over the course of three decades was contained in over 30 different prisons. Nachdem sein Gnadengesuch abgelehnt worden war, fügte er sich klaglos in sein Schicksal, was Wilde beeindruckte. No name is more inextricably bound to the aesthetic movement of the 1880s and 1890s in England than that of Oscar Wilde. The Ballad of Reading (in) Gaol: Injecting Legal Analysis into the “Book Ban” Debate By Maleha Khan Creative Copywriter, Justis Publishing Limited. A passage from the poem was chosen as the epitaph on GRO Register of Deaths: JUN qtr 1896 Wooldridge, Laura Ellen aged 23 Windsor 2c 241GRO Register of Deaths: SEP qtr 1896 Wooldridge, Charles Thomas aged 30 Reading 2c 210from various biographies of Oscar Wilde, most notably He was first sent, briefly, to Newgate Prison for initial processing, and the next week was moved to Pentonville prison, where "hard labour" consisted of many hours of pointless effort in walking a treadmill or picking oakum (separating the fibres in scraps of old navy ropes), and allowed to read only the Bible and The Pilgrim's Progress. In a poem that is full of paradoxes, the penultimate line in this extract, ‘The man had killed the thing he loved’, is repeated elsewhere in the poem. Obiit H.M. Prison, Reading, Berkshire, July 7th, 1896 I. He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed.
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