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“It will remain an invaluable compendium of David Jones criticism even after many of the contributors have published the full-length works upon which they are employed.”
—David Hill, Planet, The Welsh Internationalist
Although his work as a poet was celebrated by T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, and although his paintings and engravings were acquired by the Tate Gallery and praised by Kenneth Clark, Jones has never received anything like the attention he deserves by the general public or the academy. David Jones: Man and Poet includes reproductions of Jones’ visual art and essays on all aspects of his life and work by poets, literary critics, and art historians, an annotated bibliography, and a list of art works by David Jones in public collections.
Contributors include: Kathleen Raine, Michael Alexander, Guy Davenport, R. S. Thomas, John Montague, Anne Beresford, Vincent Sherry, Jeremy Hooker, Teresa Godwin Phelps, John Peck, Eric Gill, Kenneth Clark, Kathleen Henderson Staudt, Thomas R. Whitaker, and others.
Contents
The Man
T. S. Eliot, “A Note on In Parenthesis and The Anathemata”
W. H. Auden, “On IN Parenthesis, On The Anathemata”
Stephen Spender, “David Jones”
Hugh MacDiarmid, “An Identity of Purpose”
Kathleen Raine, “From ‘David Jones and the Actually Loved and Known’”
Michael Alexander, “From ‘David Jones’ and ‘The Dream of the Rood’”
Guy Davenport, “In Love with All Things Made”
R. S. Thomas, “Remembering David Jones”
John Tripp, “A David Jones Mural at Llanthony”
John Montague, “From The Great Bell (Conversations with David Jones, 1969-1975)”
Anne Beresford, “Thomas”
René Hague, “From Dai Greatcoat: A Self-Portrait of David Jones in His Letters”
David Jones, “Letters to H.S. Ede”
William Blissett, “From The Long Conversation”
Thomas Dilworth, “David Jones and Fascism”
The Poet
In Parenthesis
Colin Hughes, “David Jones: The Man Who Was on the Field. In Parenthesis as Straight Reporting”
William Blissett, “The Syntax of Violence”
Neil Corcoran, “Spilled Bitterness: In Parenthesis in History”
Vincent Sherry, “The Ineluctable Monologuality of the Heroic”
The Anathemata
N. K. Sandars, “The Present Past in The Anathemata and Roman Poems”
Jeremy Hooker, “In the Labyrinth: An Exploration of The Anathemata”
Thomas Dilworth, “The Shape of Time in The Anathemata”
Patrick Deane, “The Text as ‘Valid Matter’: Language and Style in The Anathemata”
The Sleeping Lord and The Roman Quarry
Teresa Godwin Phelps, “The Tribune and the Tutelar: The Tension of Opposites in The Sleeping Lord”
Tony Stoneburner, “Notes Toward Performing ‘The Sleeping Lord’”
John Peck, “Poems for Britain, Poems for Sons”
Vincent Sherry, “The Roman Quarry of David Jones: Extraordinary Persepective”
The Artist
Eric Gill, “From ‘David Jones’”
Kenneth Clark, “Some Recent Paintings by David Jones”
Arthur Giardelli, “Four Related Works by David Jones”
Paul Hills, “‘The Pierced Hermaphrodite’: David Jones’s Imagery of the Crucifixion”
The Thinker
Kathleen Henderson Staudt, “The Decline of the West and the Optimism of the Saints: David Jones’s Reading of Oswald Spengler”
Thomas R. Whitaker, “Homo Faber, Homo Sapiens”
The Testament
Samuel Rees, “David Jones Bibliography”
Paul Hills, “A List of Drawings, Paintings, Carvings, and Inscriptions by David Jones in Public Collections”