Coda
Basil Bunting, “Coda” from Complete Poems, edited by Richard Caddel. Reprinted with the permission of Bloodaxe Books Ltd., www.bloodaxebooks.com.
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Poet Basil Bunting 1900–1985
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Subjects Activities, Travels & Journeys
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
Biography
Basil Bunting, described as "the last minor master of the modernist mode" by Donald Hall in the New York Times Book Review, achieved his greatest popularity in the mid-1960s as one of the leaders of the new British literary avant-garde. Bunting's work was not always well-received; much of his early writing went largely unnoticed for years due to a mistaken association with Mussolini. Ezra Pound, an admirer of Bunting's poetry, . . .
Poems by Basil Bunting
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SUBJECT Activities, Travels & Journeys
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
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