Bunting: The Shaping of His Verse

ISBN-13: 9780198112549 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 404 str.

Peter Makin

Opis

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.

Recenzje

one of the best books of literary criticism I have ever read ... The book's thoroughgoing intelligence is born from love of its subject-matter, not from cleverness or fashionablenmess, though it is certainly clever as well, and it is far from old-fashioned.