The poet as spy
Subtitle: the life and wild times of Basil Bunting
By: Keith Alldritt.
Publisher: Aurum Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Bunting, Basil.; Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography.; Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "He was a man of many parts who had an amazing helter-skelter of a life. The author of Briggflatts, hailed as the greatest long poem produced in Britain since T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, Basil Bunting (1900-85) was also a sea captain, a music critic, an RAF Squadron Leader, a convict, a political correspondent for The Times, a builder's labourer, and a British intelligence agent specializing in the Middle East."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-213) and index.