tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16960570.post115265041299188002..comments2022-03-28T05:26:33.633+00:00Comments on Megalithic Poems: Barbury CampLittlestonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12230602842890742843noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16960570.post-1152688753579920382006-07-12T07:19:00.000+00:002006-07-12T07:19:00.000+00:00In one of those strange synchronicities that the W...In one of those strange synchronicities that the Web is so good at throwing up, C H Sorley was a distant relative of my great uncle John, who, as far as we know, took the photograph, "Three soldiers", which so fittingly illustrates this powerful poem.Donnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11702497410699120099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16960570.post-1152651713161469862006-07-11T21:01:00.000+00:002006-07-11T21:01:00.000+00:00Charles Hamilton Sorley was born in Aberdeen in 18...Charles Hamilton Sorley was born in Aberdeen in 1895. He died, aged twenty, from a sniper's bullet at the Battle of Loos. Although this poem is entitled Barbury Camp (an iron age fort, also known as Barbury Castle, on the Wiltshire Downs, and a place Sorley would have been familiar with from his days at Marlborough College) it says more about the trenches and the misery of the First World War than it does of any ancient British earthworks.<BR/><BR/>Thanks to Rhiannon on the Modern Antiquarian where I first saw this poem.Littlestonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12230602842890742843noreply@blogger.com