Mice & Other Poems


Read by 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 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)