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20%OFFThomas Dilworth - David Jones in the Great War - 9781907587245 - V9781907587245
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David Jones in the Great War

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Description for David Jones in the Great War Hardcover. Artist and poet David Jones fought in the Somme, Passchendaele and Ypres, surviving to write and paint some of the greatest modernist works on war. Now, thanks to Dilworth's painstaking research, Jones's story can be told in detail.. Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 592.
David Jones's In Parenthesis is the greatest poem to emerge from the First World War, and indeed one of the greatest to emerge from any war. It could have been written only by someone who had not only experienced the war in all its horror, but who was himself soaked in both poetry and history and for whom that war deepened his understanding of both. Thomas Dilworth's biography takes us through the intellectual development of a patriotic young Welshman from the London lower- middle classes who joined up at the beginning of the war, served throughout on the Western ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907587245
SKU
V9781907587245
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Reviews for David Jones in the Great War
Praise for Reading David Jones: Thomas Dilworth, one of the foremost contemporary Jones scholars, has taken infinite time and trouble to produce this exemplary guide to Jones's major works - the author's intense and thoughtful focus on this difficult poetry bears rich rewards. Those of us who, like Auden, have persisted with the task of "reading David Jones" owe Dilworth ... Read more

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