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Synopsis
This is Wilde's meditation on capital punishment and was written after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross indecency. The charges stemmed from his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquis of Queensberry. It relates the sad story of the execution of a man convicted of murdering his wife - a man which Wilde saw often during his internment. It inspired in Wilde's mind an illustration of the way we are all malefactors, all in need of forgiveness. According to Wilde the greater the crime, the more necessary charity. Although Wilde never hid his authorship of the poem, it was published under the name C.3.3., which stood for "Building C, floor 3, cell 3, at Reading." This ensured that Wilde's name-by then notorious-did not appear on the poem's front cover. Published in 1898, it was Wilde's last published poem as he would die two years later from cerebral menengitis. It is beautiful on many levels and very moving.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1448619106
- ISBN 13 9781448619108
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages44
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