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The Ancient Mariner
David Jones
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Description for The Ancient Mariner
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The artist and poet David Jones (1895-1974) considered The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to be one of the great achievements of English poetry, and not only great but unique. In 1929 Jones made ten copper engravings for a limited edition of Coleridge's poem, which was immediately acclaimed as the best illustrated version of the poem and among the most perfect partnerships between author and illustrator in modern times. This new edition the first in an accessible and affordable format is prefaced by Jones's engrossing and beautifully written Introduction. Also included is an afterword ... Read more
The artist and poet David Jones (1895-1974) considered The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to be one of the great achievements of English poetry, and not only great but unique. In 1929 Jones made ten copper engravings for a limited edition of Coleridge's poem, which was immediately acclaimed as the best illustrated version of the poem and among the most perfect partnerships between author and illustrator in modern times. This new edition the first in an accessible and affordable format is prefaced by Jones's engrossing and beautifully written Introduction. Also included is an afterword ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904634140
SKU
V9781904634140
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About David Jones
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 more
Reviews for The Ancient Mariner
The lost modernist, David Jones, a man whose allusive obscurity won him fans like Eliot and Auden.