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Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde: Including the Ballad of Reading Gaol

Book by Oscar Wilde; Methuen, 1911

Subjects:

Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...OSCAR WILDE INCLUDING THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL METHUEN CO. LTD...THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL Complete Version 1 THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL Shorter Version...
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Book by Oscar Wilde; Dodge Publishing Company, 1907

Subjects:

Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Ballad of Reading Gaol Copyright, 1907 By H. M. CALDWELL...Wilde his one great poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." "I have sworn solemnly to...Daily Chronicle , and thirdly "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," published early in 1898...
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Poetic Origins and the Ballad

Book by Louise Pound; The Macmillan Company, 1921

Subjects:

Ballads

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...III The "Uniformity" of the Ballad Style 146...dance and the English and Scottish ballads of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries...Literature 1911 , p. 138, speaks of the ballads as "poetry of primitive models...
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Reading Piers Plowman and The Pilgrim's Progress: Reception and the Protestant Reader

Book by Barbara A. Johnson; Southern Illinois University Press, 1992

Subjects:

Bunyan, John--1628-1688--Pilgrim's Progress, Langland, William--1330?-1400?--Piers The Plowman, Protestantism And Literature, Protestants--England--Books And Reading, Reader-Response Criticism

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...where the Dreamer dreams is glossed as the "Gaol," tying the work more closely to the biographical details of Bunyan's life. More dramatic evidence of...know whether thou art blessed on not, By,reading the same lines? O then come hither, And...
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The British Literary Ballad: A Study in Poetic Imitation

Book by G. Malcolm Laws Jr.; Southern Illinois University Press, 1972

Subjects:

Ballads, English--Great Britain--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...are conveyed through the questions of the young recruit and the answers of the sergeant. And Oscar Wildes "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" falls into this category, too. With tender perception the author captures the feelings of both the condemned...

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Wilde's the Ballad of Reading Gaol

Journal article by Christopher S. Nassaar; The Explicator, Vol. 53, 1995

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Wildes THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL It is surprising that the...Dantes Inferno on Wildes The Ballad of Reading Gaol has not yet been noted, especially...For Wilde as author in The Ballad of Reading Gaol takes us on a guided tour...
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Oscar Wilde: Reading the Life after the Life

Journal article by Peter Dickinson; Biography, Vol. 28, 2005

Subjects:

Authors--Evaluation, Whitman, Walt--Evaluation, Wilde, Oscar--Evaluation, Writers--Evaluation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the thing he loves" in "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" and the New Testament description...writings De Profundis and "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"), the filmmaking triumvirate...of the third section of "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (495), are a fitting epitaph...
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Reading a Woman's Death: Colonial Text and Oral Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Journal article by Angela Bourke; Feminist Studies, Vol. 21, 1995

Subjects:

Feminism

Collections: Entire Library

...rescued by being pulled from the back of a white horse is common in Irish folklore...entered literature in English through the ballad "Tam Lin" ; see E. B. Lyle, "The Ballad Tam Lin and Traditional Tales of Recovery from the Fairy Troop," Studies...
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Pygmalionesque Delusions and Illusions of Movement: Animation from Hoffmann to Truffaut

Journal article by Michelle E. Bloom; Comparative Literature, Vol. 52, 2000

Subjects:

Comparative studies, Literature, Motion pictures, Mythology

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...vocalizes a line from Oscar Wildes "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (Draper 62n1 7). After this...back) to life: poems (Wildes "Ballad of Reading Gaol" and Brownings "Porphyrias Lover...Guignol melodrama; and, of course, the myth of Pygmalion. As a remake...
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Christ, Christianity, and Oscar Wilde

Journal article by John Allen Quintus; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 33, 1991

Subjects:

Literature--History And Criticism, Philology

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Profundis ( 1897 ) and The Ballad of Reading Gaol ( 1898 ). 3 Hoxie Neal...he has not lost it. The Ballad of Reading Gaol ( 1898 ) is Wildes last...in a religious order. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a successful and moving...

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Arrested Development

Magazine article by Theodore Dalrymple; New Criterion, Vol. 20, June 2002

Subjects:

Prisons--Portrayals, depictions, etc., The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Wilde, Oscar--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...coarse-mouthed Doctor" of The Ballad of Reading Gaol who ... gloats and...am always accompanied by The Ballad of Reading Gaol--not literally, for my own...exceptions, not for laws." The Ballad of Reading Gaol is dedicated to "C. T. W...
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Screening Room

Magazine article by Frank Pittman; Family Therapy Networker, Vol. 22, September 1998

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...tale (The Happy Prince) and the greatest poem (The Ballad of Reading Gaol) of his era. He also had to be his eras greatest...both died during his prison stay. (As he said in The Ballad of Reading Gaol, "Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By...
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Taking a New Gamble: Richard Kwietniowski Returns after a Long Absence with Owning Mahowny, His Obsession-Drenched Follow-Up to Love and Death on Long Island

Magazine article by Stephen Rebello; The Advocate, June 10, 2003

Collections: Entire Library

...essential-viewing queer shorts such as 1988s The Ballad of Reading Gaol (featuring Quentin Crisp) and...Londoner, who studied filmmaking at the University of California, Berkeley, returns...reaction. Sort of. He says, "In the back of my mind I wonder, Are the big...
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Oscar Wilde: A Centennial Wreath of Memories

Magazine article by Richard Whittington-Egan; Contemporary Review, Vol. 277, November 2000

Subjects:

Authors--Biography, Wilde, Oscar--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

...Oscar reading from The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Declaiming Dylanesque...and from life. The Ballad was not written, as...while Wilde was in Reading Gaol, but, for the most part, at the Chalet...Berneval, in the last half of 1897. It was published...
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The Subversive Ms. Highsmith

Magazine article by Michael Bronski; Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Vol. 7, 2000

Subjects:

Gays, Gays' Writings--Book Reviews, Homosexuality And Literature, Lesbians, Lesbians' Writings--Book Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...own living punishment. "Each man kills the thing he loves," wrote Oscar Wilde famously in the refrain to "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." But this sentiment is false not only to Highsmith, but to the commonplace, contemporary politics of gay...

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Hip Resurfacing; a[euro]I Walked, with Other Souls in Pain,a[euro] - Oscar Wilde (1564-1616), 1854-1900), Irish Author. the Ballad of Reading Gaol (L. 19)

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, March 18, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Oscar Wilde (1564-1616), 1854-1900), Irish Author. the Ballad of Reading Gaol (L. 19). Byline: Dr. Jose Pujalte Jr. THE title...relined. This is an important concept because much of the bone of the hip joint is preserved. The destroyed surfaces of...
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Silicon Alley Makes a Comeback; READING

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 9, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the atmospheric ruins of the towns 12th Century abbey, while next door is the prison where Oscar Wilde wrote the Ballad Of Reading Gaol. Readings surviving pockets of timber-frame houses, medieval churches and Georgian terraces hint at its importance...
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Unlocking the Past of Our Prisons; A MUSEUM BETWEEN RUGBY AND COVENTRY DEPICTS THE THOUGHT-PROVOKING HISTORY AND CHANGING FACE OF LIFE IN BRITAIN'S JAILS

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), January 12, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and food hatch, came from the cell identified as the one occupied by poet and playwright Oscar Wilde who wrote The ballad of Reading Gaol while incarcerated there The staircase from Strangeways prison was the site of trouble which escalated into...
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Quizopedia

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 27, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ii) Dover Beach (Matthew Arnold/1822-88), iii) Upon Westminster Bridge (William Wordsworth/ 1770-1840), iv) The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Oscar Wilde/1854-1900), v) An Arundel Tomb (Philip Larkin/1922-80) The Old Vicarage Grantchester (Rupert Brooke...
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POST PUZZLER: 50 for Fun; Phil Brown's Trivia Quiz

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 16, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...called what? 25 What word for a sporting venue originally referred to a foot race equal to 202 modern yards? 26 The Ballad Of Reading Gaol is by which literary figure once imprisoned there? 27 In 1634, French explorer Jean Nicolet believed he had reached...

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Ballad

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...are found in Keatss "La Belle Dame sans Merci," Coleridges "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and Oscar Wildes "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." In music a ballad refers to a simple, often sentimental, song, not usually a folk song. Bibliography See...
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Reading , City, England

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...College of Technology, and the Univ. of Reading (1926; formerly a college, founded 1892, of the Univ. of Oxford). Oscar Wilde s Ballad of Reading Gaol was inspired by his imprisonment there, and Reading is the Aldbrickham of Thomas Hardy s...
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Wilde, Oscar

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...guilty, and sentenced (1895) to prison for two years. His experiences in jail inspired his most famous poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), and the apology published by his literary executor as De Profundis (1905). Released from prison in...

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