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Basil Bunting was born in Scotswood-on-Tyne and educated at Leighton Park School and the London School of Economics. A Quaker, he was in prison as a Conscientious Objector during the First World War. He worked in Paris on the Transatlantic Review, lived in Italy and America, was Persian correspondent for The Times, and taught at universities in America and England. His verse was better known in America than in England until Briggflatts, a long poem whose background is the Northumberland of his childhood, was published in 1966, followed by Collected Poems (1968).
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McEwan, N. (1989). Basil Bunting 1900–85. In: McEwan, N. (eds) The Twentieth Century (1900–present). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20151-8_40
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