Bunting The Shaping of His Verse [Hardcover]

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'sUncollected Poems.

What is most valuable about this book is the rich ground of Bunting's life and intellectual experience Makin has laid out for the reader....What you will find in Makin's book is the sort of instruction that leads to delight. --Harvard Review

This will be a work of lasting value. --Magill's Literary Annual

A student reading this book for information and opinion on a certain Bunting poem will find it. A professional scholar of literary modernism and British poetry will find documentary completeness, admirable integration of work and life, and thoughtful context-building on the art and history of the neglected north. --Modernism