Sadly, Barry, he never got to U of A. I discovered him somewhat late & after he had left Canada. He certainly had some effect, though, & Peter Quartermain knew him & has written on his work. Others in BC mustve met him & heard him (I know Fred Wah did, but possibly in the US).
Doug
On 2011-03-17, at 9:44 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> I enjoyed reading August Kleinzahler's account of studying with Basil Bunting in Victoria, B.C. Did BB ever give a reading at U of Alberta while he was in Canada? Or elsewhere outside British Columbia? I taught his work many times in a course entitled Modern British Poetry, but have no trouble regarding him as a "major Modernist poet".
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> Barry
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> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:35:40 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> 'Bunting was Britain�s greatest Modernist poet (by some way, although admittedly the field isn�t large) and yet he is slipping away from us.'
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>> But then he is also a major Modernist poet, not just in Britain, & over in North America his, admittedly small during his lifetime, readership did recognize that.
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>> One of the ones to re-read.
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