Basil Cheesman Bunting (March 3, 1900 – April 17, 1985) was a British modernist poet. He had a lifelong interest in music and this led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of poetry, particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud. Bunting was an accomplished reader of his own work. is the 62nd day of the year (63rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Äž: For the film, see: 1900 (film). ... is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... Mountebanks ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ...

Bunting was born in Scotswood-on-Tyne, Northumberland, now part of Newcastle upon Tyne, and educated at the Royal Grammar School there for two years. From a family with a Quaker background, he then studied at two Quaker schools: from 1912–1916 at Ackworth School in Yorkshire, and from 1916–1918 at Leighton Park School in Berkshire.^[1]. The Quaker education of young Bunting strongly influenced his pacifist opposition to WW1, and in 1918 he was arrested as a conscientious objector, having spent a sentence of more than a year in Wormwood Scrubs and Winchester prisons^[2]. Northumberland is a county in the North East of England. ... This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ... The gates of the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne Royal Grammar School, known locally as The RGS, is a long-established co-educational, independent school. ... The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Ackworth School is an independent school located at High Ackworth, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. ... Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Leighton Park School is an independent coeducational Quaker secondary school for both boarding and day pupils in Reading, Berkshire, England. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... It has been suggested that Conscientious objection throughout the world be merged into this article or section. ... Wormwood Scrubs is a place in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London. ...

During the early 1920s, he became friendly with Ezra Pound in Paris who years later dedicated his Guide to Kulchur (1938) to Bunting and Louis Zukofsky "strugglers in the desert". His early poetry was to show the influence of this friendship. He visited Pound in Rapallo, Italy and later settled there with his family from 1931 to 1933. He was published in the Objectivist issue of Poetry magazine and the Objectivist Anthology and in Pound's Active Anthology. He also worked as a music critic during this time. The 1920s is a decade that is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ... The cover of the 1978 edition of Zukofskys long poem A. Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was one of the most important second-generation American modernist poets. ... William Carlos Williams, who was the only poet to be published as both an Objectivist and an Imagist The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s. ... Poetry, published in Chicago, Illinois, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. ...

During World War II, Bunting served in British Military Intelligence in Persia. After the war, he continued to serve on the British Embassy staff in Teheran until he was expelled by Muhammad Mussadegh in 1952. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Motto Esteqlāl, āzādÄ«, jomhÅ«rÄ«-ye eslāmÄ« 1(Persian) Independence, freedom, Islamic Republic (introduced 1979) Anthem SorÅ«d-e MellÄ«-e Īrān 2 Capital (and largest city) Tehran Official languages Persian Demonym Iranian Government Islamic Republic  -  Supreme Leader  -  President Establishment  -  Proto-Elamite Period 3200-2700 BCE... Tehran (also spelled Teheran) (تهران in Persian), population 8,000,000 (metropolitan: 10,000,000), is the capital of Iran and one of the major world cities. ... Mohammed Mossadegh (Persian: محمد مصدق‎) (May 19, 1882 - March 4, 1967) was prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. ...

Back in Newcastle, he worked as a journalist on the Evening Chronicle until his rediscovery during the 1960s by young poets, notably Tom Pickard, who were interested in working with the Modernist tradition. In 1966, he published his major long poem Briggflatts. This was both a kind of autobiography and a celebration of the Northumbrian culture and dialect. The critic Cyril Connolly described it as "the finest long poem to have been published in England since T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets". The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Tom Pickard (born 1946) is a poet, radio and film maker who was an important initiator of the movement known as the British Poetry Revival. ... This article focuses on the cultural movement labeled modernism or the modern movement. See also: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) or Modernist Christianity; Modernismo for specific art movement(s) in Spain and Catalonia. ... Briggflatts is a long poem by Basil Bunting. ... Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ... Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 - 26 November 1974) was an English intellectual. ... Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. ... Four Quartets is the name given to four related poems by T. S. Eliot, collected and republished in book form in 1943. ...

References

1. ^ Pursglove, Glyn (2002-03-21). Basil Bunting. The Literary Encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company. Retrieved on 2006-05-07.
2. ^ Myers, Alan (2004). Basil Bunting (1900 - 1985). Myers Literary Guide to North-East England. Centre for Northern Studies. Retrieved on 2006-05-07.

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