Bunting's Persia
Edited by Don Share, this slim anthology collects Basil Bunting's translations from Persian poetry by Rudaki, Ferdowsi, Manuchehri, Sa'di, Hafiz, and Obaid-e Zakani, including some that are previously unpublished. Bunting, who is widely regarded as one of the most important British poets of the twentieth century, proved unusual in his deep and abiding interest in Middle Eastern culture. Here, he renders poetry of remarkable tonal and emotional range in characteristically clear and resolute language.

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Bunting's Persia
Edited by Don Share, this slim anthology collects Basil Bunting's translations from Persian poetry by Rudaki, Ferdowsi, Manuchehri, Sa'di, Hafiz, and Obaid-e Zakani, including some that are previously unpublished. Bunting, who is widely regarded as one of the most important British poets of the twentieth century, proved unusual in his deep and abiding interest in Middle Eastern culture. Here, he renders poetry of remarkable tonal and emotional range in characteristically clear and resolute language.

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Bunting's Persia

Bunting's Persia

Bunting's Persia

Bunting's Persia

Overview

Edited by Don Share, this slim anthology collects Basil Bunting's translations from Persian poetry by Rudaki, Ferdowsi, Manuchehri, Sa'di, Hafiz, and Obaid-e Zakani, including some that are previously unpublished. Bunting, who is widely regarded as one of the most important British poets of the twentieth century, proved unusual in his deep and abiding interest in Middle Eastern culture. Here, he renders poetry of remarkable tonal and emotional range in characteristically clear and resolute language.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780983889304
Publisher: Flood Editions
Publication date: 04/01/2012
Pages: 112
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Basil Bunting (1900–1985) was one of the great British poets of the twentieth century. Born in Northumberland, he attended a Quaker school and was a conscientious objector during World War I. Arrested for his political views, he was imprisoned for six months in Wormwood Scrubs and Winchester prisons. After his release, he lived in London, Paris, Italy, and the Canary Islands. He worked as a translator in Persia in the Second World War, returning to the North of England in 1952. Although Bunting was admired by fellow poets such as Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Lorine Niedecker, and Tom Pickard, he only reached a wider audience with the publication of his long poem Briggflatts in 1966.

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