[Archive] A Collection of Six Letters by English Poet Basil Bunting to an Aspiring American Poet, 1969-70

BUNTING, Basil

Editore: Northumberland, 1969

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A collection of six Typed Letters, Signed, written by Basil Bunting to the documentary photographer Roger Kingston when he was a young, aspiring poet. Recognized as one of Britain's great late modernist poets, Bunting achieved his greatest popularity in the mid-1960s as one of the leaders of the new British literary avant-garde. In the letters, Bunting skillfully avoids commenting directly on Kingston's poems, and instead comments on other contemporary poets and publishers, and the current state of literary culture in Britain. Here for example, in a letter from "May day" 1970, he gives a detailed account of his relations with American publisher James Laughlin: ". I am glad to hear that you are getting on with your writing and hope your schemes succeed. I think Laughlin will always say anything that sounds agreeable. As for his negotiations with my publisher in the forties, I hadn't a publisher in the forties: but in that decade Laughlin turned down my work for the second (or was it the third?) time. Montgomery tried to interest him a few years ago and he hummed and hawed a bit and wouldn't hear of it. He came to my reading in New York in 1967. practically pushing Ginsberg, who had done all the chores, aside; but shied off when I suggested he might handle my stuff in America. Literature owes Laughlin some respect for what he has done (fairly profitably) for Ezra; but he has the distinction of having turned down both Zukofsky and BB time and again in spite of Pound's advocacy . Here, there seems to be a new dead set against all the arts . The police are chivvying Tom Picard, the Beatles, anything handy, in a panic fear of novelty. I'm depressed. I do see a general resurgence of everything unscrupulous, illiberal and brutal in Great Britain ." An important cache of letters with good literary content. All six letters, including five mailing envelopes, are in fine condition: A detailed list of the letters, with extracts, is available on request.

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• Titolo: [Archive] A Collection of Six Letters by English Poet Basil Bunting to an Aspiring American Poet, 1969-70
• Editore: Northumberland
• Data di pubblicazione: 1969
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Poetry