Bunting, Basil Cheesman, 1900-1985
Person
Biography
Basil Cheesman Bunting was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966, generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist tradition in English.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Bunting, Basil
File
Identifier: 1988.012.1.222
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contents generally include: biographical information and drafts (often in multiple versions) of Ellmann's bio-commentary on each poet; selected poems by each author, photocopied from published sources; press cuttings of articles; rights and permissions to reprint poems; lists of corrections; and fragments of page proofs.
Dates:
1837 - 1990
Gregory Corso notebooks, 1960-1984
Collection
Identifier: 1978-002
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of eleven notebooks which contain handwritten rough drafts of poems and letters, drawings, calculations, autobiographical notes, and in some cases, addresses and appointments. Poem titles include "Love poems to Jocelyn", "O World, Who is God", "Recollections of the 1930s", "Sadism", "I saw an angel today", "Theory on new poetics", and "The historian of the ape". Most poems are untitled. Drawings include one of Allen Ginsberg and Basil Bunting reading...
Dates:
1960 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1977