David Jones's The Grail Mass and Other Works (Modernist Archives)

by David Jones; Thomas Goldpaugh; Jamie Callison; Erik Tonning; Matthew Feldman

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Hardcover, 279 pages. VG+. Crisp, clean, and square. Spine ends lightly bumped; corners brushed. Free of markings.

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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discoveries, this book presents an authoritative reconstruction of David Jones's The Grail Mass, the unfinished and unpublished project from which came both his masterpiece The Anathemata – a work described by W.H. Auden as 'one of the most important poems of our times' – and The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In addition to the text of The Grail Mass, this edition includes a number of unpublished fragments by Jones that emerged from this larger project, complete with textual commentaries.

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