- Ballad of Reading Gaol, The
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/red"ing/a poem (1898) by Oscar Wilde.
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Ballad of Reading Gaol, The
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Ballad of Reading Gaol — a long poem by Oscar Wilde, written in 1898 after he had been in prison, about a fellow prisoner who is hanged and about the horror of prison life. * * * … Universalium
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