Reading, Berkshire the Obscure, as the temporary home of Jude Fawley and Sue Bridehead. Oscar Wilde was imprisoned in Reading Gaol from 1895 to 1897. While there, he wrote his letter "De Profundis". After his release, he lived in exile in France and wrote "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", based on his experience of the execution of Charles Wooldridge, carried out in Reading Gaol whilst he was imprisoned there. Ricky Gervais, who is from Reading, made the film "Cemetery Junction", which, although filmed elsewhere in the UK, is set in 1970s Reading and is named after a busy junction in East Reading.
Ballad of the Goodly Fere offensive. Edward Marsh sought permission to reprint "Fere", which Pound denied because he wished to reprint it himself. T. S. Eliot said that "Fere" showed Pound's "great knowledge of the ballad form". William Butler Yeats said that "Fere" "will last". Ambrose Bierce is said to have "consistently disapproved" the poems of a "young poet", until one came to him which impressed him so much he wore "out the paper and the patience of friends by reading it at them", namely "Fere". Ballad of the Goodly Fere The Ballad of the Goodly Fere is a poem by Ezra Pound, first published