David Jones (1895-1974) was born in Kent to an English mother and Welsh father. He is equally renowned as a poet and an artist. His first poem was In Parenthesis (1937), an epic based on his experience in the first world war trenches. He then wrote The Anathemata (1952), a symbolic anatomy of western culture, which ... Read moreW.H. Auden regarded as the best long poem in English of the twentieth century. After its publication T.S. Eliot who had called In Parenthesis a work of genius included Jones in the exclusive company of great literary modernists consisting of himself, Pound and Joyce. Show Less