Poetry, religion, mythology, love, language, travel, nature, and history form the subjects for poems composed over forty years ago

Collected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Bunting, Basil

Poetry

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Collected Poems (Oxford Poets)

Oxford University

The Complete Poems of Basil Bunting (1900-85) is a new edition of his Collected Poems combined with Richard Caddel's scrupulously prepared Uncollected Poems (Oxford Poets, 1991). The independence of the two books is maintained in this volume so as to leave no doubt as to Bunting's own choice of his work. Only a very few extra pieces are now added: two pieces of juvenilia, and a couple of limericks. The Pious Cat, a fable for children transposed from a Persian to a Northumbrian setting, is put in its rightful place.

The Complete Poems (The Oxford Poets)

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

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.

Poems of Basil Bunting, The

Faber&Faber

At last in print, the complete poems of the great Northumbrian poet―admired by Pound, Yeats, and Zukofsky―containing his masterwork "Briggflatts." A master of song poems which celebrate―and incarnate―the music of nature and history, love and mythology, religion and language, Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was a major figure in Modernist poetry, recognized by Pound and Zukofsky as early as the 1930s, and crowned, with the 1966 publication of his masterpiece "Briggflatts", Britain's greatest poet. The poet himself called his great epic poem "old wives' chatter, cottage wisdom," but for many writers "Briggflatts" is one of the dozen great poems of the 20th century: as Cyril Connolly put it, "the finest long poem to have been published in England since T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets." As well as "Briggflatts" (long out of print in the US, and now only available in this edition), this new Complete Poems includes Bunting's other great sonatas, most notably Villon (1925) and The Spoils (1951), along with his two books of Odes, his vividly realized "Overdrafts" (as he called his free translations of Horace, Rudaki, and others), and his brilliantly condensed Japanese adaptation, Chomei at Toyama (1932). It also includes his posthumous Uncollected Poems. This centenary edition has an introduction by Richard Caddel, Director of the Basil Bunting Poetry Center at Durham University.

Complete Poems

New Directions

London 1968 1st Fulcrum. 8vo., 160pp., hardcover. VG plus, lower front cover corner a bit bumped, in VG DJ, light wear.

Collected poems

Literary

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Fulcrum Press

Moyer Bell Ltd.

`Briggflatts is one of the few great poems of this century. It seems to me greater each time I read it' - Thom Gunn `His poems are the most important which have appeared in any form of the English language since T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land'- Hugh MacDiarmid. Bunting called Briggflatts his `autobiography'.It is a complex work, drawing on many elements of his life, experience and knowledge, and features the saint Cuthbert and the warrior king Eric Bloodaxe as two opposing aspects of the Northumbrian - and his - character. Its structural models include the sonata form (and Scarlatti's music in particular) and the lattice-work of the Lindisfarne Gospels, while thematically it recalls Wordsworth's Prelude. Bunting wrote that `Poetry, like music, is to be heard.'His own readings are essential listening for a full appreciation of his highly musical poetry. This new edition 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. As well as his posthumously published `Note on Briggflatts', the book includes Bunting's seminal essay on sound and meaning in poetry,'The Poet's Point of View', and other helpful background material. All his poetry is available in his Complete Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2000).

Briggflatts

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

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Collected Poems

Collected Poems (Oxford Poets)

The Complete Poems (The Oxford Poets)

Poems of Basil Bunting, The

Complete Poems

Collected poems

Collected Poems

Collected Poems

Collected Poems

Briggflatts