An important work of literary scholarship which highlights, for the first time, the achievement of a neglected modernist master. n Basil Buntings work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee publication. This is the first critical edition of the complete poems, and offers an accurate text with variants from all printed sources. Don Share annotates Buntings often complex and allusive verse, with much illuminating quotation from his prose writings, interviews and correspondence. He also examines Buntings use of sources (including Persian literature and classical mythology), and explores the Northumbrian roots of Buntings poetic vocabulary and use of dialect.n