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A collection of short poems written by a soldier in captivity reflecting on home, memory, and the experience of imprisonment. The verse moves between intimate domestic images—mother, English gardens, county landscapes—and the hardships of internment, loneliness, and comradeship, often blending pastoral detail with wartime grief and wry humor. Forms vary from ballades and sonnets to rondel and villanelle, and recurring motifs include nature, loss, longing, and reflections on duty and sacrifice. Many pieces juxtapose the small joys of remembered rural life with the starkness of prison, producing restrained lyricism that balances tenderness, anger, and quiet faith.

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Title: Gloucestershire Friends: Poems From a German Prison Camp

Author: F. W. Harvey

Author of introduction, etc.: George Horsfall Frodsham

Release date: September 22, 2021 [eBook #66362]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd, 1917

Credits: D A Alexander, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by University of California libraries)

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