Mice & Other Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mice & Other Poems, credited to Gerald Bullett, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Mice & Other Poems by Gerald Bullett. Read in English by John Burlinson 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mice & Other Poems
• Author credits: Gerald Bullett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 33:09

Catalogue topics

• poetry

Track guide

1. 00 - Prefatory Note by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch — 3:39
2. 01 - Mice — 1:30
3. 02 - Rest — 1:19
4. 03 - 'The Strength, the Mellow Music, and the Laughter' — 1:28
5. 04 - Ashes — 1:14
6. 05 - 'Du bist wie eine Blume' — 0:55
7. 06 - Home — 1:27
8. 07 - 'Maître de Ballet' — 1:20
9. 08 - The Grudge — 2:46
10. 09 - Wedding Day — 2:06
11. 10 - Crucifixion — 1:26
12. 11 - Spring in Winter — 1:26
13. 12 - The Exile — 1:29
14. 13 - Sonnet for Helen — 1:51
15. 14 - Song — 1:25
16. 15 - Musings — 1:29
17. 16 - The Poet — 2:19
18. 17 - 'If all the trees were magic trees' — 2:09
19. 18 - 'Alone with these my poems...' — 1:51

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