Mice & Other Poems

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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Authors: Gerald Bullett In Year : 1921

Book Language: English

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Prefatory Note by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Mice
Rest
'The Strength, the Mellow Music, and the Laughter'
Ashes
'Du bist wie eine Blume'
Home
'Maître de Ballet'
The Grudge
Wedding Day
Crucifixion
Spring in Winter
The Exile
Sonnet for Helen
Song
Musings
The Poet
'If all the trees were magic trees'
'Alone with these my 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