The Poems

Synopsis

Basil Bunting's Work Was Published Haphazardly Throughout Most Of His Life, And In Many Cases He Did Not Oversee Publication. This Is The First Critical Edition Of The Complete Poems, And Offers An Accurate Text With Variants From All Printed Sources. Don Share Annotates Bunting's Often Complex And Allusive Verse, With Much Illuminating Quotation From His Prose Writings, Interviews And Correspondence. He Also Examines Bunting's Use Of Sources (including Persian Literature And Classical Mythology), And Explores The Northumbrian Roots Of Bunting's Poetic Vocabulary And Use Of Dialect. The Poems: Sonatas -- The First Book Of Odes -- Second Book Of Odes -- Overdrafts -- Uncollected Poems -- Uncollected Odes -- Uncollected Overdrafts -- School Poems -- Limericks -- Fragments And False Starts -- Anomalies -- Annotations -- Textual Variants -- Appendices. Basil Bunting ; Edited And With An Introduction And Commentary By Don Share. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 562-565) And Index.