David Jones's The Grail Mass and Other Works

By:

David Jones

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Modernist Archives

Show Hide Adult Content

$179.00

Available from supplier

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

0 in Trolley

Price Match

Free Delivery with Primate

Join Now

Free 14 day free trial, cancel anytime.

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $44.75 with Afterpay Learn more

6 weekly interest-free payments of $29.83 with Laybuy Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

Around 14-26 June using International Courier

Description

Drawing on new archival discoveries, this book presents an authoritative reconstruction of David Jones’s The Grail Mass, the unfinished and unpublished project from which came both his masterpiece The Anathemata – a work described by W.H. Auden as ‘one of the most important poems of our times’ – and The Sleeping Lord and other fragments, his final collection. With detailed commentary on the development and reconstruction of the text, this edition provides a full picture of Jones’s literary endeavours over the second half of his life and further establishes his status as a major figure in the first wave of British modernist writers alongside T.S. Eliot and James Joyce. In addition to the text of The Grail Mass, this edition includes a number of unpublished fragments by Jones that emerged from this larger project, complete with textual commentaries.

Author Biography:

David Jones (1895-1974) was a painter and poet increasingly recognized as one of the most important and original voices in British modernism. His poem In Parenthesis was described by T. S. Eliot as “a work of genius” and by Stephen Spender as “the most monumental work of poetic genius to come out of World War I” and his many admirers included W. H. Auden, Herbert Read, and W. B. Yeats. Thomas Goldpaugh, Professor Emeritus, has written extensively on the David Jones Papers at the National Library of Wales and taught for thirty years at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Jamie Callison is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Agder, Norway. He has published widely on modernism and religious culture, T.S. Eliot, and David Jones in journals such as ‘Literature and Theology’, ‘Modernist Cultures’, and ‘ELH’. He is the co-editor of a collection of essays on David Jones’s work entitled: ‘David Jones: A Christian Modernist? New Approaches to his Art, Poetry, and Cultural Theory’ (2017).

Release date NZ

March 24th, 2022

Author

David Jones

Series

Modernist Archives

Contributors

Edited by Jamie Callison
Edited by Thomas Goldpaugh

Pages

294

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

30 bw illus

ISBN-13

9781350277267

Product ID

35033440

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here