Subseries BXB/1/1/BUN - Basil Bunting

Identity area

Reference code

BXB/1/1/BUN

Title

Basil Bunting

Date(s)

  • 2000 (Creation)

Level of description

Subseries

Extent and medium

2 boxes, 3 oversized items

Context area

Name of creator

(1900-1985)

Biographical history

Basil Bunting is one of the most important British poets of the 20th century. Acknowledged since the 1930s as a major figure in Modernist poetry, first by Pound and Zukofsky and later by younger writers, the Northumbrian master poet had to wait over 30 ... Read more

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Consists of letters and proofs relating to the published poetry works of Basil Bunting.

Allied materials area

Related units of description

BXB/2/7/3, BXB/2/7/25 and BXB/2/7/133

Other archival material for Basil Bunting is held at Durham University Library, Special Collections and Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne

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