Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum

Glyn Pursglove (Swansea University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1930

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poem collection

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This pamphlet, the title of which might be translated as “A Necklace of Chamber Pots”, was Bunting's first collection, gathering some thirteen poems written between 1925 and 1929. Only a few copies seem to survive. It was reviewed by Bunting's friend Louis Zukofsky in

Poetry

in June 1931 but seems to have gone otherwise unnoticed. The most substantial work included was 'Villon', a poem in three sections which incorporates material adapted from

Villon

(in something like the way Pound had used Propertius in his

Homage

and which Bunting described, in a letter to Pound, as “a study, story, what-you-will, of a state of mind engendered by incipient D.T. plus influenza plus a clubbing from the French Police”). Bunting's drafts were edited by Pound. The best of

Redimiculum Matellarum

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Citation: Pursglove, Glyn. "Redimiculum Matellarum". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 March 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2442, accessed 10 May 2024.]

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