The work of Basil Bunting refutes the longheld contention that modernism is an exclusively American phenomenon which began on British soil. Integrally connected with Ezra Pound, this movement in poetr...
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Critical Essay by Anthony Suter
Bunting's poetry [deals] in the structure of meanings and, moreover, the meanings are organised according to a musical architecture—that of sonata form&#x...
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Critical Essay by Peter Dale
One has in the past done one's darndest to persuade oneself that Bunting does not really mean what he says when he argues, if it can be called argument, that poetry...
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Critical Essay by Anthony Suter
While not having the significance and originality of musical sound and structure in his poetry, Bunting's use of image and symbol is an important aspect of his w...
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Critical Essay by G. S. Fraser
There is verse which is directly melodic, which seems to sing rather than speak. Basil Bunting is a master of this….
Bunting perhaps excels all living poets in ex...
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Basil Bunting
