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A holograph manuscript of an early version of "The Harlot's House", dated April 1882, is preserved in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles.The final version of the poem was, according to Wilde's friend and biographer Robert Sherard, written in the spring of 1883 while the author was staying at the Hôtel Voltaire in Paris, and this account is probably accurate.
The Harlot's House – Dance Poem after Oscar Wilde: chamber 1988 Free-bass accordion, timpani and percussion Donald Swann: The Poetic Image: A Victorian Song Cycle: song cycle 1991 Swann set The Harlot's House, along with extracts from The Ballad of Reading Gaol and other texts by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and John Clare
The song was recorded by R&B/soul singer-songwriter Luther Vandross on his 1981 debut album Never Too Much. The track, which was recorded at seven minutes long, was released as a single and became an R&B hit, and later one of Vandross's signature songs. His performance of the song at the 1988 NAACP Awards telecast would bring Warwick to tears.
The Secret Rose, 1897, cover by Althea Gyles. Although Gyles continued to work, at writing and painting, she also drifted and had poor health. She gravitated towards a variety of movements and interests, which included horoscope writing, Buddhism, anti-vivisection, and vegetarianism, while being supported by dissatisfied patrons such as Clifford Bax, who considered her a parasite.
The song is an adaptation of the Hebrew Passover song "Chad Gadya" and follows the same cumulative structure of "This is the House That Jack Built". It is referenced in the 1987 Go-Betweens song "The House That Jack Kerouac Built" from their album Tallulah. It is cited on Roger Waters's 1987 album Radio K.A.O.S., during the music named "Home".
Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House composed the poem for the second inauguration of Gov. Andy Beshear on Dec. 12, 2023.
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.
The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas, was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called The Sentinel.