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Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde.At Oxford University he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship.
While in prison, Hernández produced an extraordinary amount of poetry, much of it in the form of simple songs, which the poet collected in his papers and sent to his wife and others. [citation needed] These poems are now known as his Cancionero y romancero de ausencia (Songs and Ballads of Absence). In these works, the poet writes not only of ...
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand and Naples, after his release from Reading Gaol (/ r ɛ. d ɪ ŋ. dʒ eɪ l /) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.
Aaron Radford-Wattley reads Masters’s poem, which Masters wrote while on death row at San Quentin State Prison and won him a PEN Award. “Recipe for Prison Pruno,” by Jarvis Jay Masters Skip ...
A Florida woman was sentenced to life in prison Monday for the 2020 murder of her boyfriend, whom she sealed in a suitcase overnight until he suffocated and died while she taunted him. Sarah Boone ...
In prison Wilde was disconnected from his audiences, which Declan Kiberd suggested was possibly his harshest punishment. He characterises Wilde as an Irish critic of English social mores ultimately silenced for his polemics, and reports that while convalescing in the sick-bay, Wilde entertained his fellow-patients and carers with stories and ...
A Montana man has been sentenced to 140 years in prison after killing his wife and her suspected lover. Kraig Walter Benson shot and killed his wife Jenny Benson and bartender Logan Gardner at the ...
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.