![]() ![]() Of course, he never did get round to writing anything else after this point despite the urgings of his friends, he had no temper for it at all. It seems alien to me now - real passions so soon become unreal - Still, it must be finished. He says in a letter dated 22 September "My poem I have not sent off, and I find it difficult to recapture the mood and manner of its inception. He did struggle with finishing off the poem and spent more time with the final details of it. ![]() 1 He did not wear his scarlet coat, 2 For blood and wine are red. The length of the poem was necessary, he said, to shake confidence in the penal system he knew it must fall between poetry and propaganda, but he prepared to face some artistic imperfection for the sake of changing what was intolerable. Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Author: Oscar Wilde) p.1. He was to revise it with Ross's help in August, and to expand it later. It says in Ellmann:īy 8 July Wilde had started on the Ballad and by 20 July it was, he thought, nearly finished. TEXT Prisoner C.3.3, known outside of prison as Oscar Wilde, wrote 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol.' Why not take the title on its face, and sing the poem as a ballad TUNE I took the tune from 'Derwentwater's Farewell,' and mangled it to fit Wilde's 6-line stanzas instead of the 8 lines of the original tune. Yes I think he had the idea while in prison but it was composed about two months after his release. ![]()
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