Basil Bunting was a poet profoundly shaped by his Quaker upbringing and pacifist convictions, experiences that informed his early complex works. He explored the sonic qualities of verse through intricate structures he termed "sonatas," demonstrating a deep connection to music. Influenced by modernist contemporaries like Ezra Pound, Bunting's poetry exhibits a distinctive engagement with form and sound. His career, spanning journalism and international service, culminated in major works that solidified his place in the modernist tradition.
Basil Bunting's work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee publication. He also examines Bunting's use of sources (including Persian literature and classical mythology), and explores the Northumbrian roots of Bunting's poetic vocabulary and use of dialect.
At last in print, the complete poems of the great Northumbrian poet admired by Pound, Yeats, and Zukofsky containing his masterwork Briggflatts. schovat popis
Basil Bunting is one of the most important British poets of the 20th century. This title includes a CD with an audio recording Bunting made of BRIGGFLATTS in 1967 and a DVD of Peter Bell's 1982 film portrait of Bunting.