Letters of Basil Bunting / Alex Niven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Niven, Alex, 1984- author.

Series:

Oxford Academic.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, English--20th century--Correspondence.

Poets, English.

Buntting, Basil, 1948-.

Buntting, Basil.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This is a long-awaited first selected edition of the letters of Basil Bunting, one of the major modernist poets of the twentieth century. It includes a large portion of Bunting's correspondence (around 200 letters) to recipients including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Harriet Monroe, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Ted Hughes, George Oppen, Allen Ginsberg, Donald Davie and Tom Pickard. Following Bunting from his first encounters with literary modernism in London and Paris in the 1920s to his death in Northumberland in 1985, this selection showcases a narrative that is crucial to the history of modernism and modern poetry in English. Highlights include a long and detailed dialogue with Ezra Pound in the 1930s on political, economic, and literary subjects; a rich, ruminative exchange with the American Marxist poet Louis Zukoksfy lasting over four decades; and various accounts of the excitements and controversies of the Anglo-American poetry scene of the 1960s and 1970s. Whether Bunting is writing from New York at the height of the Depression, Iran in the aftermath of World War II or the north of England during preparation of his masterpiece <i>Briggflatts</i> (1966), his prose is unfailingly sharp, eloquent, entertaining, and caustic. This edition contains detailed annotations of Bunting's letters, a critical introduction, glossary of names, and an editorial commentary.

Contents:

Introduction

Note on Referencing

Late Spring (1920-1938)

To Lionel Robbins, 12/10/20

To Lionel Robbins, 1/5/23

To Ezra Pound, 15/10/23

To J. J. Adams, 14/1/24

To J. J. Adams, 5/12/24

To J. J. Adams, 19/2/26

To Ezra Pound, 29/4/26

To Ezra Pound, 2/12/26

To Ezra Pound, 10/4/27

To Ezra Pound, Last of 1928

To Louise Morgan, 11/4/29

To Louise Morgan, 18/10/29

To The Editors of Poetry, 27/2/30

To Ezra Pound, 17/6/30

To Louis Zukofsky, 11/7/30

To Ezra Pound, 23/7/30

To Harriet Monroe, 2/8/30

To Ezra Pound, August 1930

To Ezra Pound, 21/11/30

To Harriet Monroe, 30/11/30

To Ezra Pound, 26/12/30

To Ezra Pound, 4/1/31

To Ezra Pound, 6/1/31

To Ezra Pound, 11/4/31

To Harriet Monroe, 13/7/31

To Ezra Pound, Summer 1931

To Harriet Monroe, 19/1/32

To William Carlos Williams, August the umpth 1932

To Louis Zukofsky, 2/10/32

To James G. Leippert, 30/10/32

To Ezra Pound, Late 1932

To Ezra Pound, 18/11/33

To Ezra Pound, Twentiumpth Jan 34

To Ezra Pound, 21/3/34

To Ezra Pound, 19/4/34

To Ezra Pound/Louis Zukofsky, 27/4/34

To Ezra Pound, 18/7/34

To Ezra Pound, August twentysomethingth 1934

To Ezra Pound, 4/1/35

To Ezra Pound, January/February 1935

To Ezra Pound, 5/3/35

To Ezra Pound, 6/5/35

To Ezra Pound, End of May 1935

To Ezra Pound, 11/12/35

To Ezra Pound, Last of 1935

To Ezra Pound, 22/1/36

To Ezra Pound, 28/3/36

To Ezra Pound, 3/9/36

To Dorothy and Ezra Pound, 9/1/37

To Karl Drerup, 21/1/38

To Ezra Pound, 11/11/38

To Ezra Pound, 16/12/38

Midway (1939-1963)

To Louis Zukofsky, 3/10/39

To Louis Zukofsky, 18/12/39

To Louis Zukofsky, 19/3/40

To Louis Zukofsky, 20/4/41

To Louis Zukofsky, 9/5/43

To Louis Zukofsky, 25/7/44

To Karl Drerup, 18/7/45

To Dorothy Pound, 22/11/46

To Louis Zukofsky, 7/12/46

To Louis Zukofsky, 21/1/47

To Dorothy Pound, 11/2/47

To Louis Zukofsky, 5/5/47

To Louis Zukofsky, 20/8/47

To Dorothy Pound, 17/12/47

To Margaret De Silver, 28/8/48

To Louis Zukofsky, 3/11/48

To Louis Zukofsky, 17/6/49

To Louis Zukofsky, 6/8/49

To Margaret De Silver, 2/9/49

To Dorothy Pound, 14/5/50

To Peter Russell, 18/5/50

To Dorothy Pound, 6/1/51

To Louis Zukofsky, 14/3/51

To Alan Neame, 16/4/51

To T. S. Eliot, 2/5/51

To Louis Zukofsky, 22/6/51

To Louis Zukofsky, 6/7/51

To Ezra Pound, 17/3/53

To Louis Zukofsky, 29/3/53

To Louis Zukofsky, 10/5/53

To Ezra Pound, 9/7/53

To Louis Zukofsky, 9/7/53

To Louis Zukofsky, 6/8/53

To Margaret De Silver, 27/9/53

To Ezra Pound, 21/3/54

To Ezra Pound, 28/11/54

To D. G. Bridson, 23/8/55

To Ezra Pound, 11/12/57

To Ezra Pound, 1/12/59

To Louis Zukofsky, 7/8/62

To Jonathan Williams, 22/2/63

Revival (1964-1985)

To Louis Zukofsky, 13/6/64

To Louis Zukofsky, 28/7/64

To Louis Zukofsky, 7/9/64

To Louis Zukofsky, 16/9/64

To Gael Turnbull, 24/9/64

To Louis Zukofsky, 23/11/64

To Denis Goacher, 13/12/64

To Gael Turnbull, 4/1/65

To Denis Goacher, 20/1/65

To Denis Goacher, 28/2/65

To D. G. Bridson, 20/4/65

To Gael Turnbull, 13/5/65

To Denis Goacher, 26/5/65

To Dorothy Pound, 11/6/65

To Gael Turnbull, 17/6/65

To Dorothy Pound, 11/7/65

To Denis Goacher, 17/7/65

To Denis Goacher, 8/8/65

To Denis Goacher, 4/9/65

To Roudaba Bunting Davido, 14/4/66

To Denis Goacher, 5/6/66

To Roudaba Bunting Davido, 7/9/66

To Tom Pickard, 30/3/67

To Ted Hughes, 16/4/67

To Allen Ginsberg, 18/2/68

To Denis Goacher, 16/9/68

To Gael Turnbull, 21/9/68

To Roudaba Bunting Davido, 11/10/68

To Roger Guedalla, 25/10/68

To Denis Goacher, 10/2/69

To Roger Guedalla, 6/5/69

To Hugh Kenner, 28/4/69

To Roudaba Bunting Davido, 10/6/69

To Bruce Berlind, 14/7/69

To Ronald Johnson, 7/8/69

To Ian Hamilton Finlay, 26/8/69

To Hugh Kenner, 7/11/69

To Denis Goacher, 16/12/69

To Michael Shayer, 2/4/70

To Rodger Kingston, 1/5/70

To Rodger Kingston, 25/5/70

To Cid Corman, 27/5/70

To Tom Pickard, 4/10/70

To Alexander Nelson, 25/11/70

To Karl Drerup, 9/1/71

To Dorothy Pound, 28/3/71

To Ronald Duncan, 23/7/71

To Jonathan Williams, 14/11/71

To Sister Victoria Forde, 1/1/72

To Hugh Kenner, 9/5/72

To Sister Victoria Forde, 23/5/72

To Denis Goacher, 12/6/72

To Gordon Browne, 7/9/72

To Denis Goacher, 6/11/72

To George Oppen, 16/1/73

To George Oppen, 6/2/73

To Jonathan Williams, 26/2/73

To Denis Goacher, 8/4/73

To Denis Goacher, 12/4/73

To Denis Goacher, 4/7/73

To Jonathan Williams, 1/9/73

To Jonathan Williams, 23/11/73

To Jonathan Williams, 7/8/74

To Louis Zukofsky, 2/10/74

To Roudaba Bunting Davido, 14/10/74

To Roger Guedalla, 25/11/74

To Sister Victoria Forde, 11/5/75

To Tom Pickard, 12/7/75

To Donald Davie, 25/9/75

To Donald Davie, 9/10/75

To Hugh Kenner, 14/8/76

To Jonathan Williams, 27/9/76

To Jonathan Williams, 12/1/77

To William Cookson, 12/5/77

To Tom Pickard, 24/5/77

To Roudaba Bunting Davido, 5/7/77

To Tom Pickard, September 1977

To Roudaba Bunting Davido, 27/2/78

To William Cookson, 17/4/78

To Gael Turnbull, 27/4/78

To Tom Pickard, 3/6/78

To Hugh Kenner, 17/6/78

To Sister Victoria Forde, Late 1979

To Denis Goacher, 29/4/80

To Carolyn Burke, 3/7/80

To Kenneth Cox, 19/12/80

To Sister Victoria Forde, 2/6/81

To William Cookson, 5/10/81

To Sister Victoria Forde, 1/12/81

To Sister Victoria Forde, 16/3/83

To Tom Pickard, 19/3/83

To Tom Pickard, 29/5/84

To Kenneth Cox, 23/6/84

To Sister Victoria Forde, 14/7/84

To Gael Turnbull, 8/2/85

To Massimo Bacigalupo, 20/3/85

Acknowledgments

Glossary of Names

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on Publisher website; title from home page (viewed on July 21, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Niven, Alex Letters of Basil Bunting

ISBN:

9780191955860

0191955868

9780191070907

0191070904

OCLC:

1336403710