The Poet in Prison

For the first eighteen months of his imprisonment all the rigours of the system were applied to him relentlessly. He had to pick his quantity of oakum, or bear the punishment that was sure to follow; turn the monotonous crank, along with his fellows, by which the prison was supplied with water; read the silly books from the library, or pace his cell, a prey to his own sad thoughts, until his health broke down under the unnatural strain, and, to prevent his being sent to a madhouse, he was allowed the privilege of having a limited number of books, which were sent by friends, and which afterwards found a place amongst others less abstruse on the shelves of the prison library.KeywordsUnnatural StrainSolitary ConfinementMolten LeadNational ContingencyReligious OpinionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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