Basil Bunting — Briggflatts

London, Fulcrum Press, 1966. Paperback. A smart second edition of this long poem from British modernist writer Basil Bunting. Second edition, entirely reset. Published the same year as the first edition. Subtitled "An Autobiography", this long poem is noted for its use of sound and was hailed as the successor to Ezra Pound"s Cantos and T.S. Eliot"s Four Quartets by influential critics. Bunting visited Brigflatts Meeting House, a Quaker Friends Meeting House in Cumbria, as a schoolboy and soon developed a strong attachment to his friend's sister, Peggy Greenbank, to whom the poem is dedicated. Written by Basil Cheesman Bunting, a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of this work. In the original paper binding. Externally, very smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .