Basil Bunting on Poetry
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (718 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801861667 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Makin has edited these lectures conservatively and sensitively: the speaking voice, with all its asides and modest caveats, has not been excised. With publications as useful and thorough as this, Bunting may yet secure his deserved place on the teaching syllabus of twentieth-century British poetry." -- Forum for Modern Language Studies"There are many interesting essays here, and all conspire to make one of the most sustained poetic arguments for poetry as a form of music than any I know Professor Makin and Johns Hopkins have done a valued service in bringing Bunting's readable and provocative prose writings to print." -- Oyster Boy Review"Carefully and unpedantically edited with scrupulous notes The book is a fine tribute to Bunting in his centenary year." -- David Latane, American Book Review
Several of his works, including his long poem Briggflatts, are in the form of the sonata. Although his language is plain, unvarnished English, his influences and models extend to Classical, Persian, and Japanese verse.Basil Bunting on Poetry collects two series of lectures that Bunting delivered in 1968 and 1974. "All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own." -- Basil BuntingA close poetic ally of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, the British poet Basil Bunting is best known for his use of specific musical form in poetry. Tracing the development of an English poetry governed by families of stress-groups from
Peter Makin is a professor in the Department of English at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan.
Original poerical ideas bob phoenix If you couldnt read Zukofsky and didnt like Wordsworth or Whitman this book willreveal what you may be missing. The section on Pound is too short since Buntingknows his work so well . maybe he wrote elsewhere. This book is indispensible tothe understanding of 18-20 c poetry.