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Bunting: The Shaping of His Verse

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Bunting: The Shaping of His Verse - Makin, Peter
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Basil Bunting (1900-1985) is now recognized as one of the most important twentieth-century British poets. This study is the first book-length analysis of his life and poetic achievement. Makin focuses particularly on the saints and warriors that occupy a central position in Bunting's masterpiece, Briggflatts , and on the forms of music and of Northumbrian painting and writing that help determine its structure. This study reveals Bunting as a major figure both in the development of modernism and of twentieth-century poetry ...

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Bunting: The Shaping of His Verse 1992, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198112549

Hardcover