With an introduction by Sebastian BarryIn Parenthesis is loved by many as one of the great verse works of the Great War: but it is unique in being also one of the great prose works on the subject.
Through a selection of letters to friends and literary peers, the author presents insight into the life and work of David Jones. He covers the last fifty years of his life, editing and arranging Jones
沒有一種詩比出自一次世界大戰的士兵所寫的詩更觸動人心的了。《The Great War Poets》系列這次重新編排了四個世界大戰時英勇參戰的戰地詩人，其中包含了Siegfried Sassoon、Wilfred Owen、Robert Graves、Edward Thomas、Rupert Brooke和David Jones。（見下方連結）'In Parenthesis was first p
Both his books -- like his paintings -- have a thrice-distilled quality of finality and impersonality, like Gothic stone-carvings or the paintings on the walls of the Lascaux caves.' Kathleen Raine
Eliot'This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of ': with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carn
