{"product_id":"basil-bunting-on-poetry-9780801877506","title":"Basil Bunting on Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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. Several of his works, including his long poem \u003ci\u003eBriggflatts\u003c\/i\u003e, are in the form of the sonata. Although his language is plain, unvarnished English, his influences and models extend to Classical, Persian, and Japanese verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eBasil Bunting on Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e down to Wyatt, Wordsworth, Whitman, Pound, and Zukofsky, the lectures focus on writing and hearing poetry rather than on literary-historical concerns. Throughout, editor Peter Makin expands upon and annotates the lectures with additional comments drawn from Bunting's writings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Makin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.12h x 6.10w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801877506","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44348916498569,"sku":"9780801877506","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_a08cc2ec-88af-4782-a99b-752e3334f7e9.jpg?v=1750803026","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/basil-bunting-on-poetry-9780801877506","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}