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Basil Bunting, the Glossary

Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985) was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966, generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist tradition in English.^[1]

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British modernist poets
Objectivist poets
People educated at Ackworth School
Presidents of the Poetry Society

Ackworth School

Ackworth School is a private day and boarding school located in the village of High Ackworth, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. Basil Bunting and Ackworth School are people educated at Ackworth School.

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Alan Thornhill

Alan Thornhill (1921 – March 4, 2020) was a British artist and sculptor whose long association with clay developed from pottery into sculpture.

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Benwell and Scotswood

Benwell and Scotswood is an electoral ward of Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England.

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Brigflatts Meeting House

Brigflatts Meeting House or Briggflatts Meeting House is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), near Sedbergh, Cumbria, in north-western England.

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Briggflatts

Briggflatts is a long poem by Basil Bunting published in 1966.

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Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or religion.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Cyril Connolly

Cyril Vernon Connolly CBE (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer.

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Encyclopædia Iranica

Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English-language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.

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Eric Bloodaxe

Eric Haraldsson (Eiríkr Haraldsson, Eirik Haraldsson; c.930−954), nicknamed Bloodaxe (blóðøx, Blodøks) and Brother-Slayer (fratrum interfector), was a Norwegian king.

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.

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Ferdowsi

Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (ابوالقاسمفردوسی توسی; 940 – 1019/1025), also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (فردوسی), was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of Persian-speaking countries.

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Four Quartets

Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period.

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Hafez

Khājeh Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (خواجه شمس‌‌الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (حافظ, Ḥāfeẓ, 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) or Hafiz, was a Persian lyric poet whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one of the highest pinnacles of Persian literature.

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Henry Moore Foundation

The Henry Moore Foundation is a registered charity in England, established for education and promotion of the fine arts — in particular, to advance understanding of the works of Henry Moore, and to promote the public appreciation of sculpture more generally.

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Hexham

Hexham is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the south bank of the River Tyne, formed by the confluence of the North Tyne and the South Tyne at Warden nearby, and close to Hadrian's Wall.

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HM Prison Winchester

HM Prison Winchester is a Category B men's prison, located in Winchester, Hampshire, England.

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HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs

HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs (nicknamed "The Scrubs") is a Category B men's local prison, located beside Hammersmith Hospital and W12 Conferences on Du Cane Road in the White City in West London, England.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Jonathan Williams (poet)

Jonathan Williams (March 8, 1929 – March 16, 2008) was an American poet, publisher, essayist, and photographer.

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Kurds

Kurds or Kurdish people (rtl, Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.

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Leighton Park School

Leighton Park School is a co-educational private school for both day and boarding pupils in Reading in South East England. Basil Bunting and Leighton Park School are people educated at Leighton Park School.

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London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in London, England, and amember institution of the University of London.

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Louis Zukofsky

Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was an American poet. Basil Bunting and Louis Zukofsky are Objectivist poets.

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Manuchehri

Abu Najm Aḥmad ibn Qauṣ ibn Aḥmad Manūčihrī (ابونجماحمد ابن قوص ابن احمد منوچهری دامغانی), a.k.a. Manuchehri Dāmghānī (fl. 1031–1040), was an eleventh-century court poet in Persia and in the estimation of J. W. Clinton, 'the third and last (after ʿUnṣurī and Farrukhī) of the major panegyrists of the early Ghaznawid court'.

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Mina Loy

Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966) was a British-born artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian. Basil Bunting and Mina Loy are 20th-century English poets.

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Modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.

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Modernist poetry

Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1950 in the tradition of modernist literature, but the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in question, and the biases of the critic setting the dates.

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Modernist poetry in English

Modernist poetry in English started in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists.

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Newcastle University

Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Nina Hamnett

Nina Hamnett (14 February 1890 – 16 December 1956) was a Welsh artist and writer, and an expert on sailors' shanties, who became known as the Queen of Bohemia.

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Northumberland

Northumberland is a ceremonial county in North East England, bordering Scotland.

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Objectivism (poetry)

The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s. Basil Bunting and Objectivism (poetry) are Objectivist poets.

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Poetry (magazine)

Poetry (founded as Poetry: A Magazine of Verse) has been published in Chicago since 1912.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Rapallo

Rapallo is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, in the Italian region of Liguria.

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Redimiculum Matellarum

Redimiculum Matellarum (the title means 'A necklace of chamberpots') was the first collection of poetry published by Basil Bunting.

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Richard Caddel

Richard Caddel (13 July 1949 – 1 April 2003) was a poet, publisher and editor who was a key figure in the British Poetry Revival. Basil Bunting and Richard Caddel are 20th-century English poets.

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Saadi Shirazi

Saadi Shīrāzī, better known by his pen name Saadi (help), also known as Sadi of Shiraz (سعدی شیرازی, Saʿdī Shīrāzī; born 1210; died 1291 or 1292), was a Persian poet and prose writer of the medieval period.

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Sedbergh

Sedbergh is a town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Cumbria.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. Basil Bunting and T. S. Eliot are British male poets and British modernist poets.

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The Outlook (British magazine)

The Outlook (sometimes just Outlook) was a British weekly periodical, sometimes described as a "review" and sometimes as a "political magazine".

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Tom Pickard

Tom Pickard (born 1946, Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is a poet, and documentary film maker who was an important initiator of the movement known as the British Poetry Revival. Basil Bunting and Tom Pickard are writers from Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Ubayd Zakani

Khwajeh Nizam al-Din Ubayd Allah al-Zakani (Ḵwājeh Niẓām al-Dīn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Zākānī.; d. 1370), better known as Ubayd Zakani (ʿUbayd-I Zākānī), was a Persian poet of the Mongol era, regarded as one of the best satirists in Persian literature.

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West Riding of Yorkshire

The West Riding of Yorkshire was one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Bunting

Also known as Basil Cheesman Bunting.

Basil Bunting, the Glossary

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See also

British modernist poets

Objectivist poets

People educated at Ackworth School

Presidents of the Poetry Society

References