Basil Bunting on Poetry |
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Author:
| Bunting, Basil |
Editor:
| Makin, Peter |
ISBN: | 978-0-8018-6166-6 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1999 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $111.00 |
Book Description:
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''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 A close poetic ally of Ezra Pound ......
''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 A close poetic ally of Ezra Pound ......