For More Insight into Briggflatts

Here are a couple resources if you want to learn more about Briggflatts:

• Stephen Burt, Forms of Youth (Columbia UP, 2007). Writes about Briggflatts as a poem that explores childhood from the vantage point of an older poet provoked by the spectacle of 1960s youth culture.
• Keith Tuma, Fishing by Obstinate Isles (Northwestern UP, 1998). Important book re: the current wholesale revision of what constitutes the British poetic canon. Dwells on Briggflatts as a key 20th c. poem.
•  Burton Hatlen, "Regionalism and Internationalism in Basil Bunting's Briggflatts." Yale Journal of Criticism 13.1 (Spr. 2000): 49-66. Article by one of the century's foremost experts in Pound & Williams; was head of the National Poetry Foundation at the Univ. of Maine for many years.