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 W.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.
The Ancient Mariner
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 by Thomas Dilworth, with...
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