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He had a lifelong interest in Music and this led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of poetry, particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud. Bunting was an accomplished reader of his own work. During the early 1920s , he became friendly with Ezra Pound in Paris who years later dedicated his ''Guide to Kulchur'' (1938) to Bunting and Louis Zukofsky "strugglers in the desert". His early poetry was to show the influence of this friendship. He visited Pound in Rapallo, Italy and later settled there with his family from 1931 to 1933. He was published in the Objectivist issue of '' Poetry '' magazine and the ''Objectivist Anthology'' and in Pound's ''Active Anthology''. He also worked as a music critic during this time. During World War II , Bunting served in British Military Intelligence in Persia . After the war, he continued to serve on the British Embassy staff in Teheran until he was expelled by Muhammad Mussadegh in 1952. Back in Newcastle, he worked as a journalist on the ''Evening Chronicle'' until his rediscovery during the 1960s by young poets, notably Tom Pickard , who were interested in working with the Modernist tradition. In 1966, he published his major long poem '' Briggflatts ''. This was both a kind of Autobiography and a celebration of the Northumbrian culture and dialect. The critic Cyril Connolly described it as "the finest long poem to have been published in England since T.S. Eliot 's '' Four Quartets ''". REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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