David Jones on Religion, Politics, and Culture

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”. His many admirers included W.H. Auden, Herbert Read, and W.B. Yeats. Thomas Berenato is a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia, USA. Anne Price-Owen is Research and Postgraduate Tutor at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Swansea Campus, UK. She is head of the David Jones Society and editor of The David Jones Journal. Kathleen Henderson Staudt teaches at Virginia Theological Seminary and the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary, USA. She is the author of At the Turn of a Civilization: David Jones and Modern Poetics (1994) and three volumes of poetry.

Bloomsbury Academic includes four unpublished David Jones texts in this new volume in its "Modernist Archives" series ... They are useful, and often valuable, additions to the now extensive oeuvre, each scrupulously (but extensively) edited.

• Editorial Preface to Modernist ArchivesAcknowledgementsEditors and ContributorsIllustrationsForewordRowan Williams, University of Cambridge, UKIntroductionThomas Berenato, University of Virginia, USALetter to Neville Chamberlain, 18 December 1938Oliver Bevington, Aberystwyth University, UKEssay on Adolf Hitler, 11 May 1939Tom Villis, Regent’s University London, UKEssay on Gerard Manley Hopkins, c. 1968Thomas Berenato, University of Virginia, USAMabon Studios Interview, 31 August - 3 September 1973Jasmine Hunter Evans, University of Exeter, UK, and Anne Price-Owen, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Swansea Campus, UKConclusionKathleen Henderson Staudt, Virginia Theological Seminary and Wesley Theological Seminary, USAAppendix: Abridged Edition of David Jones's Essay on Gerard Manley HopkinsKathleen Henderson Staudt, Virginia Theological Seminary and Wesley Theological Seminary, USABibliographyIndex