NMLP P-038546 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde (published as 'C.3.3.') · Leonard Smithers, London · 1898

There is a first-state text point in the poem itself: the first edition reads "And his step was light", altered from the second edition onward to "And his step seemed light", the revision persisting through the seventh edition and into most later reprints

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038546 for "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde (published as 'C.3.3.') (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038546, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).