Briggflatts [Audiobook] download free by Basil Bunting
- Listen audiobook: Briggflatts
- Author: Basil Bunting
- Release date: 2009/7/12
- Publisher: BLOODAXE BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781852248260
- Rating: 8.63 of 10
- Votes: 485
- Review by: Les Eubanks
- Review rating: 8.82 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/17
- Duration: 48M48S in 256 kbps (12.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-03
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: OPUS, FLAC, WAV, MP3, WMA, MPEG4 (compression RAR, 7Z, CBZ, JAR, TZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 64
- Includes a PDF summary of 5 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 3M53S (1 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Basil Bunting is one of the most important British poets of the 20th century. Acknowledged since the 1930s as a major figure in Modernist poetry, first by Pound and Zukofsky and later by younger writers, the Northumbrian master poet had to wait over 30 years before his genius was finally recognised in Britain - in 1966, with the publication of 'BRIGGFLATTS', which Cyril Connolly called 'the finest long poem to have been published in England since T.S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets'. Bunting called 'BRIGGFLATTS' his 'autobiography'. It is a complex work, drawing on many elements of his life, experience and knowledge, and features the saint Cuthbert and the warrior king Eric Bloodaxe as two opposing aspects of the Northumbrian - and his - character. Its structural models include the sonata form (and Scarlatti's music in particular) and the latticework of the Lindisfarne Gospels, while thematically it recalls Wordsworth's 'Prelude'. Bunting wrote that 'Poetry, like music, is to be heard.' His own readings of his own work are essential listening for a full appreciation of his highly musical poetry.This new edition includes a CD with an audio recording Bunting made of 'BRIGGFLATTS' in 1967 and a DVD of Peter Bell's 1982 film portrait of Bunting. As well as his own notes to the poem, the book includes his seminal essay on sound and meaning in poetry, 'The Poet's Point of View' (1966). All his poetry is available in 'Complet Poems' (Bloodaxe Books, 2000).
- Other categories, genre or collection: Poetry By Individual Poets
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 12.87 USD
- Dimensions: 165x238x6mm
- Weight: 198g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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