Basil Bunting's late modernism : from Pound to poetic community

Thesis

This study examines Basil Bunting's development as a poet from his meeting with Ezra Pound in Paris in 1923, through his collaborations with Pound, Louis Zukofsky, and other members of the Objectivist circle in the 1930s, up to his meeting with Allen Ginsberg and Tom Pickard in 1960s Britain against a backdrop of social activism and modernist revival. In particular, it seeks to query the critical commonplace that Bunting was a sceptic interested solely in the autotelic form of poetry, and to ...

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Authors: Niven, A; Alex Niven

• Publication date: 2013
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Ezra Pound; 20th century poetry; political literature; Basil Bunting; modernist poetry; poetry; modern poetry; modernism
• Subjects: English Language and Literature; English and Old English literature