The Poems of Basil Bunting

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Faber & Faber, Jun 14, 2016 - Poetry - 320 pages
Basil Bunting's work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee publication. This is the first critical edition of the complete poems, and offers an accurate text with variants from all printed sources. Don Share annotates Bunting's often complex and allusive verse, with much illuminating quotation from his prose writings, interviews and correspondence. 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.

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APPENDICES
xiii
Poems
99
Bibliography
121
About the Author
150
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About the author (2016)

Don Share is the former editor of Poetry magazine. His books include Wishbone (Black Sparrow), Union (Eyewear), and Bunting's Persia (Flood Editions), and his translations of Miguel Hernández were awarded the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize and Premio Valle Inclán.
Born in Northumberland in 1900, Basil Bunting moved to Paris in the 1920s and later followed Pound to Italy. He lived thereafter in Berlin, Tenerife, America, Persia - working as a music critic, sea captain, RAF officer, Times correspondent and Chief of Political Intelligence in Tehran. In 1954 he returned to Northumberland, and worked for several years as a sub-editor on the Newcastle Evening Chronicle until his retirement in 1966. First recognized as a major modernist poet by Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, Bunting remains deeply influential among British and American poets to this day. He died in 1985.

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