Mice & Other Poems
Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote both supernatural fiction and some children's literature. "Mice & Other Poems" is one of a series of small volumes of poetry published after WWI mostly by graduates of the University of Cambridge. The doyen of "Cambridge English", Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, had this to say about the series: "That since the War, young men in extraordinary numbers have taken to expressing themselves in verse is a plain fact, not to be denied: that they choose, as often as not, to express themselves in 'numbers' extraordinary to us can as hardly be contested. But the point is, they have a crowding impulse to say something; and to say it with the emotional seriousness proper to Poetry. For my part, I love the discipline of verse: but I love the impulse better. Time will soften—I hope not too soon, lest it sugar down and sentimentalise—a certain bitterness of resentment observable in this booklet and its next followers: but, as nothing in verse is nobler than true tradition, anything is more hopeful than convention." - Summary by John Burlinson
Genre(s): Single author
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 00 | Prefatory Note by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch | John Burlinson |
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Play 01 | Mice | John Burlinson |
00:01:30 |
Play 02 | Rest | John Burlinson |
00:01:19 |
Play 03 | 'The Strength, the Mellow Music, and the Laughter' | John Burlinson |
00:01:28 |
Play 04 | Ashes | John Burlinson |
00:01:14 |
Play 05 | 'Du bist wie eine Blume' | John Burlinson |
00:00:55 |
Play 06 | Home | John Burlinson |
00:01:27 |
Play 07 | 'Maître de Ballet' | John Burlinson |
00:01:20 |
Play 08 | The Grudge | John Burlinson |
00:02:46 |
Play 09 | Wedding Day | John Burlinson |
00:02:06 |
Play 10 | Crucifixion | John Burlinson |
00:01:26 |
Play 11 | Spring in Winter | John Burlinson |
00:01:26 |
Play 12 | The Exile | John Burlinson |
00:01:29 |
Play 13 | Sonnet for Helen | John Burlinson |
00:01:51 |
Play 14 | Song | John Burlinson |
00:01:25 |
Play 15 | Musings | John Burlinson |
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Play 16 | The Poet | John Burlinson |
00:02:19 |
Play 17 | 'If all the trees were magic trees' | John Burlinson |
00:02:09 |
Play 18 | 'Alone with these my poems...' | John Burlinson |
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