LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of O Hollow Hollow Hollow by W.S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 8, 2012.<br /><br />Here is a poem by the "fleshly" poet, Bunthorne, from the opera Patience, by Gilbert and Sullivan. Who better to introduce it than the poet himself:<br /><br />BUNTHORNE. It is a wild, weird, fleshy thing; yet very tender, very<br />yearning, very precious. It is called, "Oh, Hollow! Hollow! <br />Hollow!"<br />PATIENCE Is it a hunting song?<br />BUNTHORNE. A hunting song? No, it is not a hunting song. It is the<br />wail of the poet's heart on discovering that everything is<br />commonplace. To understand it, cling passionately to one another<br />and think of faint lilies.<br /><br />Bunthorne was considered to have been modelled on Oscar Wilde, but more recent research has suggested that this claim is not correct. ( Summary by Algy Pug )
