A selection of the best work by David Jones, the great Anglo-Welsh
poet and essayist, painter and draughtsman.
Out of print
A selection of the best work by David Jones, the great Anglo-Welsh
poet and essayist, painter and draughtsman.
David Jones's reputation has continued to grow since his death, but there are still many who find his major writings difficult to approach on account of their allusive and highly individual style. It is for these people, and also for students who are taking their first steps towards an understanding of contemporary literature, that this introductory volume has been prepared.
This is a new edition of the book first published by Faber & Faber in 1980 as Introducing David Jones.
Contents: Introduction; A, a, a, Domine Deus; From In Parenthesis (1937) , Part 3: Starlight Order; From Part 4: King Pellam's Launde; From Part 7: The five unmistakable marks; Notes to In Parenthesis; From The Anathemata (1952) , From Preface to The Anathemata; From I: Rite and Fore-Tune; II. Middle-Sea and Lear-Sea; From VII: Mabinog's Liturgy; Notes to The Anathemata; From The Sleeping Lord and Other Fragments (1974) , The Tribune's Visitation; The Tutelar of the Place; The Hunt; From The Sleeping Lord; Notes to The Sleeping Lord and other fragments.