Oscar Wilde quoted in graffiti on Reading Prison

A new artwork has appeared on the side of Reading Prison, quoting from a poem by its former inmate Oscar Wilde.The Banksy-style artwork, which was not painted by the famous graffiti artist, includes a stanza from The Ballad Of Reading Gaol, written by Wilde following his two-year sentence for gross indecency between 1895 and 1897.During his incarceration – a result of a disastrous libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry – Wilde saw a soldier hanged for murder. Wilde wrote about his experience in the autobiographical poem in 1898. He died in Paris in 1900, at just 46 years old.The new graffiti appeared on a wall by the former prison overnight on Friday. Last March a genuine artwork by Banksy on the prison walls was defaced.