Bunting (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Makin
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Literary criticism; biography
- Time of Work: 1900-1985
- Setting: England, France, Italy, the Middle East, and North America
- Principal Characters: Basil Bunting, Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Music or musicians, Literature, World War II, Poetry or poets, Writing, World War I, Letters, Realism, Sound
- Locales: France, England, Italy, North America, Middle East
“There are those who think that after 1945 the poetry of Bunting is manifestly better than any other poetry in English written in the same period. It is in a class of its own. But this was so far from received opinion that it could not be taken seriously.” Thus Donald Davie, writing at the end of the 1980’s, summed up the critical standing of Basil Bunting’s poetry. The title chosen by Davie for the book from which this assessment is quoted, Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain, 1960-1988 (1989), alluding to Bunting’s long poem Briggflatts...
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