Wallace, Kathleen Montgomery 1890-1958 creator text utu 2026 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats Lost city by Kathleen Montgomery Wallace is a collection of lyric poems written in the early 20th century during the World War I era. The book evokes the landscape and spirit of Cambridge and the fens while mourning a beloved lost to war. Its likely topic is the intersection of place, memory, and bereavement, blending pastoral affection with elegy. The poems move from tender portraits of Cambridgeshire’s gentle fields, rivers, courts, and college spires to an intimate grief for one who “lies somewhere in France.” Classical echoes—Styx, Lethe, Arcadia—frame a vow to remember rather than forget. Seasons and city scenes become touchstones: chestnuts in blossom, rooks at dusk, tea by the river, a lamp-lit window now dark. Memory haunts “old roads,” prompting a wish for “new roads” free from ghostly joy, even as love is claimed as unaging and unbroken by death. Home-front moments—an interval at the theatre, winds over London roofs—collide with headlines of losses and the ache of absence. The sequence closes with a fierce tenderness: the world may be rebuilt from wartime soil, but not the carefree, purposeless hours once lived under Cambridge skies. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2026-01-04 chenzw and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Originally published: Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1918 World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry English poetry -- 20th century PR Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1918 20001162 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnp4l3&seq=7 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77613 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnp4l3&seq=7 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77613 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134810.0 77613