Mice & Other Poems
Gerald Bullett
Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)
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 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
Mice | 1:30 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
Rest | 1:19 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
'The Strength, the Mellow Music, and the Laughter' | 1:28 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
Ashes | 1:14 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
'Du bist wie eine Blume' | 0:55 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
Home | 1:27 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
'Maître de Ballet' | 1:20 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
The Grudge | 2:46 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
Wedding Day | 2:06 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
Crucifixion | 1:26 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
Spring in Winter | 1:26 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
The Exile | 1:29 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
Sonnet for Helen | 1:51 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
Song | 1:25 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
Musings | 1:29 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
The Poet | 2:19 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
'If all the trees were magic trees' | 2:09 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
'Alone with these my poems...' | 1:51 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |