Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a virtual movie of the English poet and playwright Frank Desprez reciting his best known poem "Lasca" A Poem abou a Mexican girl. “Lasca”. This ballad-like piece, first published in a London magazine in 1882, tells the story of a Mexican girl and her cowboy sweetheart caught in a cattle stampede “in Texas down by the Rio Grande”.
The sound recording used here comes from a rare 78 rpm shellac record recorded in 1913 by the Welsh actor Lyn Harding.
youtube.com/watch?v=yoIv-yVlhDU
Frank Desprez (9 February 1853 – 25 November 1916) was an English playwright, essayist, and poet. He wrote more than twenty pieces for the theatre, as well as numerous shorter works, including his famous poem, Lasca.
Here's a virtual movie of the English poet and playwright Frank Desprez reciting his best known poem "Lasca" A Poem abou a Mexican girl. “Lasca”. This ballad-like piece, first published in a London magazine in 1882, tells the story of a Mexican girl and her cowboy sweetheart caught in a cattle stampede “in Texas down by the Rio Grande”.
The sound recording used here comes from a rare 78 rpm shellac record recorded in 1913 by the Welsh actor Lyn Harding.
youtube.com/watch?v=yoIv-yVlhDU
Frank Desprez (9 February 1853 – 25 November 1916) was an English playwright, essayist, and poet. He wrote more than twenty pieces for the theatre, as well as numerous shorter works, including his famous poem, Lasca.
