000			02840cam a22003493u 4500
001			77636
003			UtSlPG
005			20260610134811.0
006			m
007			cr n
008			260607r20261919utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d
010			_a20008620
040			_aUtSlPG
041		7	_aen _2iso639-1
050		4	_aPR
100	1		_aBowman, Archibald Allan, _d1883-1936
245	1	0	_aSonnets from a prison camp
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-01-07
508			_aTim Miller, chenzw and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_aSonnets from a prison camp by Archibald Allan Bowman is a collection of war sonnets written in the early 20th century. The book charts a soldier-philosopher’s inner and outer life under World War I captivity, blending frontline scenes with meditations on home, art, nationhood, and moral purpose. The sequence opens in Flanders with night bombardments, shattered billets, and the fall of positions around Estaires and Laventie, leading to capture and the moral shock of surrender. A grueling march follows—through bog and darkness, past overrun villages and a desolate lazarette—ending in the prisons of Lille, then Rastatt and Hesepe, where the monotony of wire and routine alternates with flashes of nature and memory. From confinement, the poet turns to home thoughts of Scotland and England; to literary and philosophical companions—Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Wordsworth, Homer and the Greek tragedians, Plato, Kant, Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Croce—to steady and widen the mind. He distills watchwords on art, tragedy, duty, and the State, contrasts German “Gehorsam” with English strengths and flaws, and calls England and Oxford to unity, clarity of speech, and service to the people. The later sonnets rise into a patriotic vision: England’s spirit, history, and empire as instruments for a higher moral end, and a plea that the nation move as one. An interlude on the sonnet form reveals the poems as a discipline against despair. The book closes by honoring the country’s dead and affirming hope that suffering can be transfigured into purpose. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: John Lane, 1919
653			_aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry
653			_aImprisonment -- Poetry
653			_aPrisoners of war -- Poetry
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/cu31924105271146/page/n5/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77636
999			_c118356 _d118356