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Mice & Other Poems

Gelesen von John Burlinson (1950-2024)

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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 (0 hr 33 min)

Chapters

Prefatory Note by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

3:39

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Mice

1:30

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Rest

1:19

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'The Strength, the Mellow Music, and the Laughter'

1:28

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Ashes

1:14

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'Du bist wie eine Blume'

0:55

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Home

1:27

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'Maître de Ballet'

1:20

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The Grudge

2:46

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Wedding Day

2:06

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Crucifixion

1:26

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Spring in Winter

1:26

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The Exile

1:29

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Sonnet for Helen

1:51

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Song

1:25

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Musings

1:29

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The Poet

2:19

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'If all the trees were magic trees'

2:09

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'Alone with these my poems...'

1:51

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