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BALLAD OF READING GAOL (fragment)

He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,

And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And murdered in her bed.

Escritor y poeta irlandés. Irish writer and poet.
Importante figura del movimiento esteticista. Important figure of the Aesthetic Movement.
Nació en 1854 en Dublín y llevó una vida transgresora. Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854 and led a
Estudió en el Trinity College de Dublín y en Oxford. transgressive life.
Su primer libro, Poemas, es de 1881. He studied at Trinity College in Dublin and in Oxford.
Viajó por Europa, norte de África y Estados Unidos. His first book Poems was published in 1881.
En 1884 se casó con Constance Lloyd con la que tuvo He travelled through Europe, North of Africa and
dos hijos. United States.
A partir de entonces se dedicó exclusivamente a la literatura. In 1884, Wilde married Constance Lloyd and had two
Acusado de homosexualidad en 1895 fue condenado children. Since then, he devoted himself to literature.
a prisión. He was accused of homosexuality in 1895 and sent to
Al salir partió a Francia, solo, repudiado y con escasos prison. When he got out, he set off to France, alone,
medios para subsistir. condemned and with hardly any means to survive.
En 1900 en París, poco antes de morir, se convirtió al In 1900, shortly before he died, he converted to
catolicismo. Catholicism in Paris.
Apoyó el principio básico del movimiento estético "El Arte Oscar Wilde supported the basic principle of the
por El Arte". Aesthetic movement "art for art's sake".
Escribió cuentos infantiles, El príncipe feliz y La casa de He wrote children's stories The Happy Prince and Other
118 las granadas; poemas, La Balada de la cárcel de Tales and The House of Pomegranates; poems Ballad
of Reading gaol, De Profundis; theatre Salome, Lady
Reading, De profundis; teatro, Salomé, El abanico de
Lady Windermere y La importancia de llamarse Ernesto; Windermere's Fan, The Importance of being Earnest;
y la novela, El retrato de Dorian Gray. and the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.