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Arrested development. (Notebook).(Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol)
The last time I attended a hanging in the prison it was a murder, not a suicide. I arrived too late to bring the hanged man back to life: for, if there are degrees of deadness, he was by then already very dead.
The cellmate of the hanged man did not so much confess as boast that he had intimidated the dead man into hanging himself. He had threatened to cut his throat in his sleep if he did not hang himself first, and the man, who was two weeks from his release, chose the rope--or rather, the bedsheet torn into strips, dampened and braided into a noose. The cellmate helped him up on to the chair and obligingly kicked it away from under him.
The hanging ...
- Wilde's 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol.' (Oscar Wilde)
- The Explicator Nassaar, Christopher S. March 22, 1995 700+ words
...sin. In The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Wilde responded to...of different rings in Reading Gaol disappears after part...author in The Ballad of Reading Gaol takes us on a guided...to be found, while Oscar Wilde moves us gradually toward...
- Pit of shame; the real ballad of Reading Gaol.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2007 700+ words
...shame; the real ballad of Reading Gaol. Stokes, Anthony. Waterside...the history of England's Reading Gaol from the 16th century to...s most famous inmate, Oscar Wilde, whose "Ballad of Reading Gaol" is examined in detail...
- In the Reading Gaol: Postmodernity, Texts, and History.
- Magazine article from: Style Wright, Terence R. December 22, 1995 700+ words
One of the problems of the label "Reader-Response Criticism" is that it covers a multitude of different approaches. Jane Tompkins's anthology, Reader-Response Criticism, originally published in 1980 but reprinted many times since then and still used as a course textbook, includes essays that could
- The stolen ballads of reading gaol Prison poems to be checked for plagiarism
- Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London DAVID BARRETT Home Affairs Correspondent August 9, 2009 700+ words
A PROJECT to encourage prisoners to write verse, with a pounds 25 prize, suffered a setback after some entrants proved not entirely honest. The prisoners' newspaper Inside Time, which is published by a charity, has introduced strict checks on its poetry page after some contributors copied out poems
- Oscar Wilde, Fernando Pessoa, and the art of lying.(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: Portuguese Studies de Castro, Mariana September 22, 2006 700+ words
...openly obsessed, by Oscar Wilde. His espolio contains...Pessoa (1888-1935) to Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), his...Profundis and the Ballad of Reading Gaol (containing a preface...Ross), The Poems of Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile...
- Oscar Wilde's "The Sphinx"--a dramatic monologue of the dandy as a young...
- Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly Lennartz, Norbert September 22, 2004 700+ words
With the exception of The Ballad of Reading Gaol and the occasional comment on "The Harlot's House," Oscar Wilde's poetic production has now been almost completely eclipsed by the tremendous academic and popular-culture attention given...
- The ballad of Reading Learning Centre . . . Outcry over 'cosmetic' rebranding...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) September 4, 2003 700+ words
Byline: MATTHEW HICKLEY HAD Oscar Wilde lived today his best-known poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol might have been very different. But would...encounters. He later wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol to highlight what he saw as inhumane conditions...
- THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF OSCAR WILDE.(Review)
- Magazine article from: American Scholar KIRSCH, ADAM January 1, 2001 700+ words
...May 25, 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced...Alfred Douglas from Reading Gaol, he prophesied...s club for "Oscar Wilde, posing Somdomite...The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Given the...generations later, Oscar Wilde is a literary...
