In Parenthesis.
by David Jones
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- Hardcover
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Scarborough , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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In a fitted box. Green cloth binding with white title on the spine and front board.
In Parenthesis is an epic poem of the First World War by David Jones first published in England in 1937. Although Jones had been known solely as an engraver and painter prior to its publication, the poem won the Hawthornden Prize and the admiration of writers such as W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Based on Jones's own experience as an infantryman, In Parenthesis narrates the experiences of English Private John Ball in a mixed English-Welsh regiment starting with embarkation from England and ending seven months later with the assault on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme. The work employs a mixture of lyrical verse and prose, is highly allusive, and ranges in tone from formal to Cockney colloquial and military slang.
Walter David Jones CH, CBE (1 November 1895 – 28 October 1974) was a painter and modernist poet of partly Welsh background. As a painter he worked mainly in watercolour on portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engraver and inscription painter. In 1965, Kenneth Clark took him to be the best living British painter, while both T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden put his poetry among the best written in their century. Jones's work gains form from his Christian faith and Welsh heritage.
Synopsis
An anthology of poetry from World War I poets.
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- Bookseller
- Martin Frost (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FB4540 /25
- Title
- In Parenthesis.
- Author
- David Jones
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2014
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 2014
- Size
- 18 x27 x4cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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