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Versed in Adventure

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Few modern poets served so long an apprenticeship as Basil Bunting, none had so adventurous a life and few poets' lives have produced such lasting rewards.

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Stephen Burt
Stephen Burt teaches at Harvard and is the author, most recently, of The Art of the Sonnet (with David Mikics) and...

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Books by four poets about big modern systems whose results and failures seem inescapable.

W.B. Yeats’s poems on Ireland contemplate failures: not of poetry but of public life in all its forms.

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