Since Bunting has come up, his lectures on poetry from c1970 have recently
been published--and they are a paeon to sound in poetry:
"for what poetry professes to tell us is scarcely relevant. The poetry is
in the sound, the shape of the poem; in its rhythmic variety and power, in
the emotional suggestiveness of its vowels and consonants set out in
complex patterns, in the symmetry of the line the sound seems to draw in
the air, or in the proportion between one loop of sound and another"
(102).
Basil Bunting on Poetry. Ed. Peter Makin. Baltimore and London: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1999. 234pp. $42.00 (ISBN 0-8018-6166-7)
Makin did a superb job of editing, and it's too bad the book isn't
available in paperback (yet?).
David Latane
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