Briggflatts (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Basil Bunting
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, Music or musicians, England or English people, Fathers, Kings, queens, or royalty, Sea or seafaring life
The Poem
Briggflatts is a five-part poem of nearly seven hundred lines combining a celebration of the Northumbrian landscape of England with the poet’s meditations on history, aesthetic reality, language, and his own participation in the events and incidents that give the poem its substance and emotional qualities. The title recalls the Quaker meeting house where Basil Bunting, as a young man, first experienced the illuminative insights that he came to believe were at the core of poetic possibility. The five-part structure of the poem is based on the sonata form of...
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