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THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL

C.3.3. [Oscar Wilde]

London: Leonard Smithers
1899
B05953

Early Edition.  Written after the release of Wilde from two years' imprisonment, the poem was inspired by the hanging of Trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge in Reading prison.