Oscar Wilde's best and most famous poems deal with his imprisonment for homosexuality, ... He might have been a member of the Church of Ireland, but this poem hails his first love, ...

A first edition of Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest, dedicated by the writer to his first gay lover, is going under the hammer. The book, expected to fetch 120,000 US dollars (£ ...

A first edition of Oscar Wilde’s 'The Importance Of Being Earnest', dedicated by the writer to his first gay lover, is going under the hammer.

Legenday wit Oscar Wilde spent two unpleasant years in prison in England for "gross indecency" -- how officials in 1895 chose to describe homosexual activity.

A FIRST-edition copy of 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', presented by Oscar Wilde in 1898 to drama critic William Archer "with the compliments of the author", is set to make up to ?22,000 at Sotheby ...

Muldoon said the poems are somewhat based on the stanza pattern of "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," a somber poem written by Wilde about the execution of an inmate. Muldoon plans to read the poems at ...