David Jones in the Great War

David Jones in the Great War
Author: Thomas Dilworth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Poets, English
ISBN: 9781907587245

This text vividly presents life on the front line, challenging the accepted wisdom about David Jones's service and illuminating the man and his work. Accompanying the text are photos of Jones and wartime sketches and writing, for the best part previously unpublished, and 7 fully rendered drawings not seen since the war.

In Parenthesis; Seinnyessit E Gledyf Ym Penn Mameu

In Parenthesis; Seinnyessit E Gledyf Ym Penn Mameu
Author: David 1895-1974 Jones
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781013653452

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David Jones

David Jones
Author: Thomas Dilworth
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 675
Release: 2017-04-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1473547571

The first full biography of a neglected genius and one of the great Modernists, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout ‘I would like to have done anything as good as David Jones has done’ Dylan Thomas As a poet, visual artist and essayist, David Jones is one of the great Modernists. The variety of his gifts reminds us of Blake – though he is a better poet and a greater all-round artist. Jones was an extraordinary engraver, painter and creator of painted inscriptions, but he also belongs in the first rank of twentieth-century poets. Though he was admired by some of the finest cultural figures of the twentieth century, David Jones is not known or celebrated in the way that Eliot, Beckett or Joyce have been. His work was occasionally as difficult as theirs, but it is just as rewarding – and more various. He is overlooked because his best writing is imbedded in two book-length prose-poems – In Parenthesis and The Anathemata, making it difficult to anthologise; the work is informed by his Catholic faith and so may feel unfashionable in this secular age; he was a shy, reclusive man, psychologically damaged by his time in the trenches, and loathed any kind of self-promotion. Mostly, though, he was a complete and original poet-artist – sui generis, impossible to pigeon-hole – and that has led to the neglect of David Jones: a true genius and the great lost Modernist.

David Jones, a Fusilier at the Front

David Jones, a Fusilier at the Front
Author: David Jones
Publisher: Dufour Editions
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Published to coincide with the centenary of David Jones' birth, a collection of the artist's sketches from World War One, which provide a graphic portrayal of life in the front line trenches. The pictures are interspersed with passages of Jones' writing, from his war poem IN PARENTHESIS to his letters and journals.

David Jones and Rome

David Jones and Rome
Author: Jasmine Hunter Evans
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2022-02-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192638599

This interdisciplinary and archival study explores the reception of ancient Rome in the artistic, literary, and philosophical works of David Jones (1895-1974)—the Anglo-Welsh, Roman Catholic, First World War veteran. For Jones, the twentieth century was a period of crisis, an age of conflict, disillusionment and cultural decay, all of which he saw as evidence of the decline of Western civilisation. Across his lifetime, Jones would create a dynamic vision of ancient Rome in an attempt both to understand and to challenge this situation. His reimagining of Rome was not founded on a classical education. Instead, it was fashioned from his lived experience, extensive reading, and—most importantly—his engagement with four areas of contemporary discourse that were themselves built upon intricate and conflicting representations of Rome: British political rhetoric, cyclical history, the Catholic cultural revival, and the Welsh nationalist movement. Tracing Jones's developing approach to Rome across these contexts can provide a way into his art and thought. Whether in his poetic fragments, watercolours, essays, letters, marginalia or unique painted inscriptions, Jones strove to question, complicate and remake Rome's relationship with modernity. In this way, Rome appears in Jones's works both as a symbol of transhistorical imperialism, totalitarianism, and the mechanisation of life, and simultaneously as the cultural and religious progenitor of the West, and in particular, of Wales, with which artists must creatively reconnect if decline was to be avoided.

The Great War and Modern Memory

The Great War and Modern Memory
Author: Paul Fussell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2013-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199971978

Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on publication in 1970. Today, Fussell's landmark study remains as original and gripping as ever: a literate, literary, and unapologetic account of the Great War, the war that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. This brilliant work illuminates the trauma and tragedy of modern warfare in fresh, revelatory ways. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who--with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning--most effectively memorialized World War I as an historical experience. Dispensing with literary theory and elevated rhetoric, Fussell grounds literary texts in the mud and trenches of World War I and shows how these poems, diaries, novels, and letters reflected the massive changes--in every area, including language itself--brought about by the cataclysm of the Great War. For generations of readers, this work has represented and embodied a model of accessible scholarship, huge ambition, hard-minded research, and haunting detail. Restored and updated, this new edition includes an introduction by historian Jay Winter that takes into account the legacy and literary career of Paul Fussell, who died in May 2012.

David Jones on Religion, Politics, and Culture

David Jones on Religion, Politics, and Culture
Author: David Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2018-06-28
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1474274145

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.

The Anathemata

The Anathemata
Author: David Jones
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Christianity and the arts
ISBN: 9780571259793

David Jones's 'Anathemata' is a spiritual and historical poem which looks at the West and in particular Britain.

The Art of David Jones

The Art of David Jones
Author: Ariane Bankes
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781848221604

This book offers a concise and highly readable account of the visual art of David Jones (1895-1974). It challenges the simplistic view of Jones as an outsider or an eccentric, exploring his work instead in relation to the wider cultural and intellectual climate of his times.

Great Poets of World War I

Great Poets of World War I
Author: Jon Stallworthy
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780786710980

A wonderfully illustrated collection of critical analysis of poetry from World War I commemorates the great poetic voices produced by this terrible conflict, including such noted writers as Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owe, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, and other notables.