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David Jones in the Great War (Hardcover, New)
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David Jones in the Great War (Hardcover, New)
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David Jones's In Parenthesis is the greatest poem to emerge from
the First World War, and indeed one of the greatest to emerge from
any war. It could have been written only by someone who had not
only experienced the war in all its horror, but who was himself
soaked in both poetry and history and for whom that war deepened
his understanding of both. Thomas Dilworth's biography takes us
through the intellectual development of a patriotic young Welshman
from the London lower- middle classes who joined up at the
beginning of the war, served throughout on the Western Front, and
learned, through living through the sodden misery of the winter of
1915-16 and the nightmares both of the Somme and then of
Passchendaele, that war could be not only terrible but also,
through the comradeship it brought with it, deeply fulfilling. This
was this strange paradox that lies at the heart of In Parenthesis.
Anyone who seeks to understand that poem should first read this
book. But so should anyone who seeks to understand how David
Jones's generation endured the Great War. Professor Sir Michael
Howard, OM MC Accompanying the biography are photographs of Jones
and his wartime sketches and drawings, many previously unpublished.
The quickly drawn sketches of infantrymen, landscapes, ruined
villages and still-lifes bring the story to life as works of
documentary realism.
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