An edition of The poet as spy (1998)
The poet as spy
the life and wild times of Basil Bunting
By Keith Alldritt
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Publish Date
1998
Publisher
Aurum Press
Language
eng
Pages
221
Description:
"He was a man of many parts who had an amazing helter-skelter of a life. The author of Briggflatts, hailed as the greatest long poem produced in Britain since T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, Basil Bunting (1900-85) was also a sea captain, a music critic, an RAF Squadron Leader, a convict, a political correspondent for The Times, a builder's labourer, and a British intelligence agent specializing in the Middle East."--BOOK JACKET.
subjects: Biography, English Poets, Spies, Bunting, basil, 1900-1981
People: Basil Bunting
Places: Great Britain
Times: 20th century