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David Jones - author of In Parenthesis, the great poem of World War I - is increasingly recognized as a major voice in the first generation of British modernist writers. Acclaimed by the likes of T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and W.H. Auden, his writing was deeply informed by his Catholic faith and Welsh blood.
This book makes available for the first time a number of previously unpublished statements by Jones that open new perspectives on his own work and the religious, political, and cultural engagements of British modernism more broadly. Annotated throughout, with detailed commentaries exploring the historical context of each document, the volume presents the restored text of Jones's essay on Hitler and includes a letter to Neville Chamberlain, an unfinished essay on Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the transcript of an interview with Jones a year before his death. These reveal an unknown side of Jones and give fresh insight into the influences and assumptions of 20th-century British literary culture.
Contents
Editorial Preface to Modernist Archives
Acknowledgements
Editors and Contributors
Illustrations
Foreword
Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge, UK
Introduction
Thomas Berenato, University of Virginia, USA
Letter to Neville Chamberlain, 18 December 1938
Oliver Bevington, Aberystwyth University, UK
Essay on Adolf Hitler, 11 May 1939
Tom Villis, Regent's University London, UK
Essay on Gerard Manley Hopkins, c. 1968
Thomas Berenato, University of Virginia, USA
Mabon Studios Interview, 31 August - 3 September 1973
Jasmine Hunter Evans, University of Exeter, UK, and Anne Price-Owen, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Swansea Campus, UK
Conclusion
Kathleen Henderson Staudt, Virginia Theological Seminary and Wesley Theological Seminary, USA
Appendix: Abridged Edition of David Jones's Essay on Gerard Manley Hopkins
Kathleen Henderson Staudt, Virginia Theological Seminary and Wesley Theological Seminary, USA
Bibliography
Index
