In the Châtelet
Jeremy Harding, 20 April 1995
François Villon: Complete Poems
edited by Barbara Sargent-Bauer.
Toronto, 346 pp., £42, January 1995,0 8020 2946 9 Show More
edited by Barbara Sargent-Bauer.
Toronto, 346 pp., £42, January 1995,
Basil Bunting: Complete Poems
edited by Richard Caddel.
Oxford, 226 pp., £10.99, September 1994,0 19 282282 9 Show More
edited by Richard Caddel.
Oxford, 226 pp., £10.99, September 1994,
“... the work. The longer poems, all but one under the rubric, ‘Sonatas’, make their way through a field of reference and allusion – works encountered, things held dear – much as the Cantos do, although in Bunting, the journey is better planned and the sense of the poem, from line to entirety, more precise. Allegiances too, are more discreetly ... ”