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Author / Creator:Bunting, Basil.
Imprint:[Place of publication not identified] : Bloodaxe Books, 2000.
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12475503
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ISBN:9781852245276
1852245271
9781780371726
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Summary:Annotation Basil Bunting (1900-85) is one of the major British poets of the 20th century, best known for his epic poem Briggflatts (1966). His Complete Poems was reissued by Bloodaxe on Bunting's centenary with a new introduction by Richard Caddel. A new double-cassette of his readings of Briggflatts and other poems is also available from Bloodaxe.
Other form:Print version: Bunting, Basil. Complete poems. Cambridge, England : Chadwyck-Healey ; Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Bloodaxe Books, 2000 9781852245276
Table of Contents:
  • Description; Title Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction by RICHARD CADDEL; A Bunting Bibliography; COLLECTED POEMS; Preface; SONATAS; VILLON; ATTIS: OR, SOMETHING MISSING; AUS DEM ZWEITEN REICH; THE WELL OF LYCOPOLIS; THE SPOILS; BRIGGFLATTS; CHOMEI AT TOYAMA; FIRST BOOK OF ODES; 1 Weeping oaks grieve, chestnuts raise; 2 Farewell ye sequent graces; 3 I am agog for foam. Tumultuous come; 4 After the grimaces of capitulation; 5 Empty vast days built in the waste memory; 6 ...As to my heart, that may as well be forgotten; 7 The day being Whitsun we had pigeon for dinner
  • 8 Loud intolerant bells (the shrinking nightflower closes9 Dear be still! Time's start of us lengthens slowly; 10 CHORUS OF FURIES; 11 Narciss, my numerous cancellations prefer; 12 An arles, an arles for my hiring; 13 Muzzle and jowl and beastly brow; 14 GIN THE GOODWIFE STINT; 15 Nothing; 16 Molten pool, incandescent spilth of; 17 Now that sea's over that island; 18 THE COMPLAINT OF THE MORPETHSHIRE FARMER; 19 Fruits breaking the branches; 20 VESTIGES; 21 TWO PHOTOGRAPHS; 22 Mesh cast for mackerel; 23 THE PASSPORT OFFICER; 24 Vessels thrown awry by strong gusts; 25 As appleblossom to crocus
  • 26 Two hundred and seven paces27 On highest summits dawn comes soonest; 28 You leave; 29 Southwind, tell her what; 30 THE OROTAVA ROAD; 31 The soil sandy and the plow light, neither; 32 Let them remember Samangan, the bridge and tower; 33 Not to thank dogwood nor; 34 These tracings from a world that's dead; 35 Search under every veil; 36 See! Their verses are laid; 37 ON THE FLY-LEAF OF POUND'S CANTOS; SECOND BOOK OF ODES; 1 A thrush in the syringa sings; 2 Three Michaelmas daisies; 3 BIRTHDAY GREETING; 4 You idiot! What makes you think decay will; 5 Under sand clay. Dig, wait
  • 6 WHAT THE CHAIRMAN TOLD TOM7 O, it is godlike to sit selfpossessed; 8 Carmencita's tawny paps; 9 All the cants they peddle; 10 Stones trip Coquet burn; 11 AT BRIGGFLATTS MEETINGHOUSE; 12 Now we've no hope of going back; OVERDRAFTS; Darling of Gods and Men, beneath the gliding stars; Yes, it's slow, docked of amours; Please stop gushing about his pink; VERSE AND VERSION; Once, so they say, pinetrees seeded on Pelion's peak; When the sword of sixty comes nigh his head; All the teeth ever I had are worn down and fallen out; Shall I sulk because my love has a double heart; Came to me
  • This I write, mix ink with tearsLast night without sight of you my brain was ablaze; You can't grip years, Postume; HOW DUKE VALENTINE CONTRIVED; THE PIOUS CAT; UNCOLLECTED POEMS; Editor's Preface by RICHARD CADDEL; THEY SAY ETNA; UNCOLLECTED ODES; 1 Coryphée gravefooted precise, dance to the gracious music; 2 AGAINST THE TRICKS OF TIME; 3 READING X'S COLLECTED WORKS; 4 HYMN TO ALIAS THOR; 5 The flat land lies under water; 6 Gertie Gitana's hymn to waltzing; 7 ENVOI TO THE READER; 8 TRINACRIA; 9 A SONG FOR RUSTAM; 10 To abate what swells; 11 Such syllables flicker out of grass