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Poetry and WorkBasil Bunting and the Work of Poetry

Poetry and Work: Basil Bunting and the Work of Poetry [Throughout Bunting’s small, precise oeuvre, the theme of work—and the notion of poetry-making as a form of work—is a constant presence. Key to Bunting’s presentation of different kinds of work is the advocacy of craft work as a counterpoint to alienated and enervated cultures. In this essay I will attend to the question of what, for Bunting, constitutes art “work”, and will consider the making of poetry as a kind of labour or craft. I ask what craft connotes, and what that connotation might mean to Bunting’s poetry. This is an exploration, therefore, of what the craft of his poetry entails. Bunting, who was born in the North East of England in 1900, was apprenticed in the 1930s to Ezra Pound, and wrote poetry until he died in 1985, was an important progenitor for a number of late-modernist poets. By looking at what the work of poetry meant to Bunting, as well as looking at some of the ways in which he wrote poetry about work, this essay provides a background to the growing tradition of post-war experimental writing infused with ideas about work and labour.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Poetry and WorkBasil Bunting and the Work of Poetry

Part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Book Series
Editors: Walton, Jo Lindsay; Luker, Ed
Haynes, Annabel
Poetry and Work — Nov 17, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
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978-3-030-26124-5
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139 –164
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10.1007/978-3-030-26125-2_5
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[Throughout Bunting’s small, precise oeuvre, the theme of work—and the notion of poetry-making as a form of work—is a constant presence. Key to Bunting’s presentation of different kinds of work is the advocacy of craft work as a counterpoint to alienated and enervated cultures. In this essay I will attend to the question of what, for Bunting, constitutes art “work”, and will consider the making of poetry as a kind of labour or craft. I ask what craft connotes, and what that connotation might mean to Bunting’s poetry. This is an exploration, therefore, of what the craft of his poetry entails. Bunting, who was born in the North East of England in 1900, was apprenticed in the 1930s to Ezra Pound, and wrote poetry until he died in 1985, was an important progenitor for a number of late-modernist poets. By looking at what the work of poetry meant to Bunting, as well as looking at some of the ways in which he wrote poetry about work, this essay provides a background to the growing tradition of post-war experimental writing infused with ideas about work and labour.]

Published: Nov 17, 2019

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