# Sonnets from a prison camp

Author: Bowman, Archibald Allan, 1883-1936

Genre: World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77636

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Sonnets+from+a+prison+camp+Bowman&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

For allowing this slight volume to see the light of day I have but one excuse to offer. The situation to which these verses are the emotional reaction represents a very real and serious piece of experience. It is no mere poetical exaggeration to say that in the first days of captivity at least, the writing of the sonnets was a labour that “stood between my soul and madness,” and I cannot help feeling that what, under one of the heaviest blows that can befall a soldier, has meant so much to me, may have in it something that will raise it at times above the personal to the level of general human interest.

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sonnets-from-a-prison-camp-77636/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sonnets-from-a-prison-camp-77636/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sonnets-from-a-prison-camp-77636/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sonnets-from-a-prison-camp-77636/chapters/4/index.md)