@article { , title = {'Local site and historical depth': Briggflatts, A Drunk Man, and British Modernist poetics of place}, abstract = {© The Author 2016. This article aims to present new understandings of how place, identity, and text are configured in British modernist poetry, particularly in the extended poem. Focusing chiefly on Basil Bunting's Briggflatts (1966), the discussion explores this poem's alignment of geography and history as sources of identity, noting a stark contrast with the kinds of rootlessness more readily associated with the Poundian long poem. Bunting can be seen to marshal a variety of spatio-temporal signifiers to convey a located identity, and it is demonstrated that Hugh MacDiarmid's A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926) enacts similar processes more explicitly. MacDiarmid and Bunting's historicized and located writing is briefly contrasted with Louis Zukofsky's depthless language, which carries conflicting spatial implications. William Carlos Williams's Paterson is then discussed as representing an American poetics of place that shows key commonalities with Bunting, but works with a distinct conception of history. Ultimately, it is argued that Bunting and MacDiarmid can be viewed as typifying a specifically British modernism, even whilst complicating and interrogating notions of Britishness. Their shared poetics of place are concerned with maintaining roots in the local site, but also asserting Northumbrian and Scottish nationalisms.}, doi = {10.1093/english/efw049}, eissn = {1756-1124}, issn = {0013-8215}, issue = {251}, journal = {English}, note = {Comments and Suggestions : Note: OUP do not allow depositing of article offprint, but do give permission to share the URL of the article, as given above. Here's a quote from their policy (sent to me by email): You may wish to include these links in your list of publications. As with an offprint, following these links allows interested readers free access to the full text of your paper whether or not they are a subscriber to the journal. However, in distributing the link, we request that you consider the following points: The article should only be viewed from the Oxford Journals site, and not hosted by your own personal/institutional web site or that of other third parties, though you or your co-authors may post the URLs on your own sites or those of your institutions/organizations;}, pages = {332-362}, publicationstatus = {Published}, publisher = {Oxford University Press (OUP)}, url = {https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/907913}, volume = {65}, keyword = {poetry, modernism, British identity, nationalism, Basil Bunting, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Carlos Williams, landscape}, year = {2016}, author = {Rogers, Samuel} }