Uncollected Poems |
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Author:
| Bunting, Basil |
Editor:
| Caddel, Richard |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-282870-5 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1991 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $11.95 |
Book Description:
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Basil Bunting is now recognized as one of the most important twentieth-century British poets. This volume supplements his Collected Poems, with work that survived his own rigorous self-editing, but remained uncollected at the time of his death in 1985. The poems represented include Pound-pastiches from the thirties, examples from the rich, densely patterned work of the post-Briggflatts period, and a series of free translations (one of which, "The Pious Cat," is translated from a...
More DescriptionBasil Bunting is now recognized as one of the most important twentieth-century British poets. This volume supplements his Collected Poems, with work that survived his own rigorous self-editing, but remained uncollected at the time of his death in 1985. The poems represented include Pound-pastiches from the thirties, examples from the rich, densely patterned work of the post-Briggflatts period, and a series of free translations (one of which, "The Pious Cat," is translated from a Persian to a Northumbrian setting.