The publication of Basil Bunting's ...

The publication of Basil Bunting's Briggflatts in 1966 was quite simply single of the most important results in postwar British poetry. And there was a Chicago connection: the whole metrical composition first appeared in the pages of metrical composition (Chicago) in January of that year and was simply published in book form in England one months later. With Bunting's argueed Poems two years later the main dead body of work of one of the generation of interwar modernists was finally, and belatedly, made available. If for a certain number of Bunting was no more than a minor disciple of Ezra comminute an outdated exotic unassimilable to