Title: Basil Bunting on poetry
First published: 1999
Description: "A close poetic ally of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, the British poet Basil Bunting is best known for his use of specific musical form in poetry."--BOOK JACKET.

"Basil Bunting on Poetry collects two series of lectures that Bunting delivered in 1968 and 1974. Tracing the development of an English poetry governed by families of stress-groups from Beowulf down to Wyatt, Wordsworth, Whitman, Pound, and Zukofsky, the lectures focus on writing and hearing poetry rather than on literary-historical concerns."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History and criticism, English poetry, American poetry, Versification, Poetics, English language, Poetry, history and criticism
LC classification: PR503 .B86 1999