Who swinging his axe to fell kings, guesses where we go?
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| Birth: | 1st March, 1900 |
| Death: | 17th April, 1985 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet |
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Basil Cheesman Bunting was a significant British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966. He had a lifelong interest in music that led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of poetry, particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud. He was an accomplished reader of his own work. In 1965, he published his major long poem, Briggflatts, named for the Quaker meeting house in Cumbria where he is now buried. Bunting died in 1985 in Hexham, Northumberland.
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