The Ballad of Reading Gaol

'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'' - is a work by the Irish philosopher, aesthete, writer and poet O. Wilde (1854 - 1900). The poem, which became famous, was written at the end of 1897 in France. It was published as a separate publication in 1898 in the print run of 800 copies. Wilde wrote this poem after he had spent two years of imprisonment in the convict prison of Reading on indictment of dissolute...