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Oscar Wilde
1898
Poem
Tragedy
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is told from the first-person perspective of a speaker who shares his subjective point of view on the execution of a fellow prisoner.
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is written in the past tense.
Reading Gaol was a prison in Reading, Berkshire, England, and was later known as HM Prison Reading. Oscar Wilde spent two years in this prison. He chronicles the execution of a fellow prisoner named Charles Wooldridge (d. 1896) in "The Ballad of Reading Gaol."
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