from Odes: 14. Gin the Goodwife Stint
Basil Bunting, “14. Gin the Goodwife Stint” 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 Gender & Sexuality, Social Commentaries, Money & Economics, Jobs & Working, Activities
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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, . . .
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SUBJECT Gender & Sexuality, Social Commentaries, Money & Economics, Jobs & Working, Activities
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
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