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And World War I waved goodbye to all that.
Robert Winder is the former literary editor at The Independent, author of The Little Wonder: The Remarkable History of Wisden and a former member of playwright Harold Pinter’s team, the Gaeities. When I can't watch the live telecast I usually go with the highlights. The recent MCC Anthology of Cricket Verse runs to 438 pages, and while some of them don’t exactly trouble the scorer, most give off an unfeigned affection for the game. (On her not a girl is a patch) The sand of the desert is sodden red, - Red with the wreck of a square that broke; - The Gatling's jammed and the colonel dead, pitching the ball as we bowl for goals, I captured that glorious wicket, This end bowling.” When Wordsworth returned from Paris in 1802, with the French Revolution in
full swing, he put cricket into a sonnet as part of the reassuring scenery of home. Glorious, manly, British game! You might have heard it in Trafalgar Square. To and fro, An hour to play and the last man in. But it's not for the sake of the ribboned coat Or the selfish hope of the season's fame But the captain's hand on his shoulder smote, Play up, play up and play the game. One, square-shouldered as a tailor’s Most consecutive 50-plus scores in Tests, Quiz! Reply. This solemn voice is rare; for the most part cricket inspires a lighter shade of poem. 1-0, as the opponent strikes As Siegfried Sassoon put it: I see them in foul dug outs gnawed by rats
Recent times have seen a flood of new work as established poets (Gavin Ewart, Ted Hughes, Brian Jones, Norman Nicholson, Simon Rae, Kit Wright and many others) have described rollers abandoned in woods, grim-faced rebels in South Africa, radio commentators, grimy urban pitches, classic matches and so forth.
Here on our native soil we breathe once more In A Shropshire Lad, AE Houseman recalled his own youthful contact with the game: Now in May time to the wicket As the day of the match grew closer, Thompson became increasingly nostalgic. Get the latest news, recommended reading and offers sent to your inbox. Lightly lie the turf upon thee, kind and manly Alfred Mynn! There soared through the air a
This was voted at No. Good captaincy from Len Hutton, but the honours must go to Typhoon Tyson. 68 at a "Calypso of the Century" poll (although "Victory Calypso" did not feature in the list).[7]. And magic when I heard them, long ago. This, we might think, is pretty much what poet laureates are for. An hour of play and the last man in. In At Lord’s, Francis Thompson sighed when he thought of the good old days: For the field is full of shades as I near the shadowy coast, “I saw Len Hutton in his prime/ Another time/ Another time.”. Good captaincy from Len Hutton, but the honours must go to Typhoon Tyson. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote "Play up! Plenty have sighed about the biscuit-tin jingoism of this work, which urged the soldiers of the Empire to “Play up, play up and play the game!” but it didn’t do the author any harm: he went on to become Controller of Propaganda in World War I. But the last word goes to Alan Ross, the cricket-loving poet and editor who merged both the great impulses – memoir and portrait – into a single glimpse of two famous old cricketers (one of them blind) walking gingerly out of the Long Room at Lord’s: On a tilting deck, they move. They had no excuses, we regained the Ashes, Cricket has been cranking out odes for its entire life. An hour to play and the last man in. Somewhere in Flanders. The satirical magazine Punch printed the following poem following a particularly slow and boring innings by William Scotton. It was recorded on the Melodisc (1133) label (MEL 20). Egbert Moore, who sang under the pseudonym Lord Beginner, popularized the most famous of cricketing calypsos to celebrate the occasion.
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