Newcastle, England: King Ida's Watch Chain, 1965. First Printing. Packet in Envelope. An assembly of works by and about the great English Modernist poet, Basil Bunting (1900-1985) published in 1965. Besides Bunting, other famous poetic commentators on him also feature in this assembly: including Gael Turnbull (1928-2004), the great Scottish poet who participated, integrally in the British Poetry Revival of the 1960s and 1970s; and Hugh Kenner (1923-2003), the great..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. "From one of the finest critics at work in America today...a brilliant, funny, complicated, altogether dazzling account of the Irish Literary Revival, that surprising explosion of genius which first made itself heard in the last years of the nineteenth century and whose aftershocks are still rumbling through the world of letters. Here are (William Butler) Yeats, (James) Joyce, (John Millington)..... More