![]() ![]() ![]() The Ballad of Reading Gaol (pronounced as Reading Jail) is the poem he wrote about his two year’s experience in Jail. He was arrested, stood trial, found guilty, and was imprisoned for two years where he had to do hard labour. He had a close friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas and the Marquess of Queensberry accused Wilde of being a homosexual (which was a crime back then). He married Constance Lloyd in 1884 and they had two children. He went on to study at the Portora Royal School, Trinity College in Dublin, and Magdalen College in Oxford. His father was an ear and eye surgeon and his mother was a poet. Oscar Wilde is an Irish poet and dramatist and he was a spokesperson for the 19-th century Aesthetic movement in England. One of his longer poems, The Ballad of Reading Gaol written in 1898 is one of the more relevant poems to our study of Victorian Crime. We know Oscar Wilde to be a funny (plays like The Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest) and a philosophical man ( The Picture of Dorian Gray). However, aside from a dramatist and novelist, Oscar Wilde was also a poet. ![]()
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