Basil Bunting fue un poeta profundamente marcado por su educación cuáquera y sus convicciones pacifistas, experiencias que moldearon sus primeras obras complejas. Exploró las cualidades sonoras del verso a través de intrincadas estructuras que denominó "sonatas", demostrando una profunda conexión con la música. Influenciado por contemporáneos modernistas como Ezra Pound, la poesía de Bunting exhibe un distintivo compromiso con la forma y el sonido. Su carrera, que abarcó el periodismo y el servicio internacional, culminó en obras importantes que cimentaron su lugar en la tradición modernista.
Basil Bunting's work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee publication. 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.
At last in print, the complete poems of the great Northumbrian poet admired by Pound, Yeats, and Zukofsky containing his masterwork Briggflatts. schovat popis
Basil Bunting is one of the most important British poets of the 20th century. This title 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.