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Complete Poems, by Basil Bunting. New Directions. $16.95.

Basil Bunting on Poetry. Ed. by Peter Makin. Johns Hopkins University Press. $42.00 cloth; $25.00 paper.

In 1964 during his daily commute to a job writing a financial page and humdrum copy for the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, from a phrase ("Brag, sweet tenor bull") written many years earlier and a remembered scene fifty years past, Basil Bunting began to construct the contents of his life: childhood (with sweetheart), vagabonding, sailing, espionage, scholarship, poetry, and music, compounded by meditations on ...

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