Basil Bunting on Poetry

by Basil Bunting

Book Overview

"All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own."--Basil Bunting

A close poetic ally of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, the British poet Basil Bunting is best known for his use of specific musical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801877504
• ISBN13: 9780801877506
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher