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Cadogan Hotel Sloane Street
this is a building connected to two famous Victorian characters who dictated fashion and scandalised the Victorian society: Oscar Wilde wa sarrested here to be judged and sent to Reading Jail and his friend Lillie Langtry, mistress of Edward VII lived here (see tag with blue plaque in Pont Street) 
It was in Reading that Wilde produced one of his best poems:
"The Ballad of Reading Goal":
The poem is a social commentary against the deplorable and inhuman conditions existing in Reading jail. His poignant plea for prison reform was written while he served a two-year term there:
"
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.


He walked amongst the Trial Men 
In a suit of shabby grey; 
A cricket cap was on his head, 
And his step seemed light and gay; 
But I never saw a man who looked 
So wistfully at the day.


I never saw a man who looked 
With such a wistful eye 
Upon that little tent of blue 
Which prisoners call the sky, 
And at every drifting cloud that went 
With sails of silver by.


I walked, with other souls in pain, 
Within another ring, 
And was wondering if the man had done 
A great or little thing, 
When a voice behind me whispered low, 
'THAT FELLOW'S GOT TO SWING.'


Dear Christ! the very prison walls 
Suddenly seemed to reel, 
And the sky above my head became 
Like a casque of scorching steel; 
And, though I was a soul in pain, 
My pain I could not feel."
   

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Taken on: March 9, 2007

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