The Ballad of Reading Gaol
/ðə ˌbæləd əv ˌredɪŋ ˈdʒeɪl/
/ðə ˌbæləd əv ˌredɪŋ ˈdʒeɪl/
- 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
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol