by David Jones (Author), David Jones (Author), Thomas Berenato (Editor), Anne Price-Owen (Editor)
David Jones - author of In Parenthesis, the great poem of World War I - is increasingly recognized as a major voice in the first generation of British modernist writers. Acclaimed by the likes of T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and W.H. Auden, his writing was deeply informed by his Catholic faith and Welsh blood. This book makes available for the first time a number of previously unpublished statements by Jones that open new perspectives on his own work and the religious, political, and cultural engagements of British modernism more broadly. Annotated throughout, with detailed commentaries exploring the historical context of each document, the volume presents the restored text of Jones's essay on Hitler and includes a letter to Neville Chamberlain, an unfinished essay on Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the transcript of an interview with Jones a year before his death. These reveal an unknown side of Jones and give fresh insight into the influences and assumptions of 20th-century British literary culture.
Format: Abridged
Pages: 368
Edition: Abridged - Annotated
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 28 Jun 2018
ISBN 10: 1474274137
ISBN 13: 9781474274135
Book Overview: With commentary and annotation throughout, this book makes available for the first time previously unpublished writings by the influential modernist poet David Jones, including statements on Hitler, art, and faith.