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available for the first time a number of previously unpublished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.
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ISBN
9781474274159
Publisert
2020
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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