jpahk wrote:i don't normally post in these threads (though i do vote)—but just thought i should pop in to brag about knowing oscar wilde. i don't normally think of him as a poet either (indeed, he was the #1 starting pitcher on my playwrights baseball team for 8 seasons), but i do know "the ballad of reading gaol". informal polling suggests that none of the other ToC players knew it, so ... yeah, tough clue. any lit question that tom nissley and roger craig both whiff on is pretty brutal.
Hmmm, I pictured Wilde more as a catcher, but that only shows what I know ...
Which shows that, on any given week, at least 3 people lie in their FJ recording.
I trust DHicton's and pinkfreud's claims to the Liederkranz get, and I know one person in real life (well, I've met Doug, but I'm talking here about a person I only know IRL) who knew it. I don't know who the third poll voter was.