Author: F. W. Harvey

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-16

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9781333254810

Excerpt from Gloucestershire Friends: Poems From a German Prison Camp Good wine needs no bush. Those who know and love A Gloucestershire Lad would resent any lengthy attempt to praise the quality of Lieutenant Harvey's verses. Some Of the poems from a German prison camp may reach a far higher standard of lyric excellence than any in the earlier volume. The two ballades on war and The Bugler grip one by the throat. But all the verses have a sweetness and beauty entirely their own. The poems are all short - too short. Lieutenant Harvey sings like the wild birds of his own dear Gloucestershire because he cannot help doing so. He stops Short - as they do - and like them begins again. What can we do but take what he gives us, wondering that he can write SO well, mewed as he is in a cage - and such a cage An agony of inarticulate longing shrills in a feathered cageling's song: the man simply and unaffectedly lays bare his heart, his love, his faith, his hope, his sense of loneliness, of ineffectiveness, of baf ed purposes and incompleted manhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."