id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-205 Basil Bunting - Wikipedia .html text/html 3047 442 70 Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985)[2] 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.[3] He had a lifelong interest in music that led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of poetry, particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud. The Basil Bunting Poetry Award and Young Person's Prize, administered by Newcastle University, are open internationally to any poet writing in English.[14][15] 1999: Basil Bunting on Poetry (posthumous, edited by Peter Makin) ^ The Basil Bunting Poetry Award, Changes Ahead by John Halliday 29 November 2013 Archived 23 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine Alldritt, Keith, Modernism in the Second World War:The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Basil Bunting and Hugh MacDiarmid, New York: Peter Lang, 1989, ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-205.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-205.txt