Bunting: The Shaping of His Verse (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198112549)

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 as a whole. Oxford University Press is also publishing Bunting's Uncollected Poems.

Author: Peter Makin
ISBN-10: 0198112548
ISBN-13: 9780198112549
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 03/19/1992
Pages: 390
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.86w x 1.19d