Bunting : the shaping of his verse / Peter Makin Hardcover - 1992

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine gilt-blocked cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xx, 370 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-357) and index. Contents; Part I. Development -- 1. Ancestors -- 2. Villon in Paris -- 3. At Rapallo -- 4. Chomei -- 5. The Well of Lycopolis -- 6. The Spoils -- 7. Home -- Part II. Matter -- 8. Briggflatts: Plot and Parables -- 9. Warriors -- 10. Saints -- Part III. The Form Of Poetry -- 11. The Lindisfarne Gospels -- 12. Music -- Part IV. Theory -- Part V. Coda -- 1(a). On the Use of Quantitative Metres in English -- 1(b). On the Teaching of the Classics and Quantity -- 2(a). Eric, Egil, and History in Briggflatts -- 2(b). Viking Technic -- 3. St Cuthbert in the Hands of Bede -- 4. The Cultural Affiliations of the Lindisfarne Gospels -- 5(a). On the Centrality of Sound in Poetry -- 5(b). Forms of Sound and Forms of Meaning -- 5(c). Bunting's Models for Sonata Form -- 6. Solipsism and the Community. Subjects; Bunting, Basil Criticism and interpretation. Bunting, Basil. Bunting, Basil 1900-1985. 1900-1910. English literature. English poetry 20th century. History and criticism. 20th century poets. Biography and autobiography. English poetry.