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Informationen zum Autor 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” and his many admirers included W. H. Auden, Herbert Read, and W. B. Yeats. Thomas Goldpaugh , Professor Emeritus, has written extensively on the David Jones Papers at the National Library of Wales and taught for thirty years at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Jamie Callison is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Agder, Norway. He has published widely on modernism and religious culture, T.S. Eliot, and David Jones in journals such as ‘Literature and Theology’, ‘Modernist Cultures’, and ‘ELH’. He is the co-editor of a collection of essays on David Jones’s work entitled: ‘David Jones: A Christian Modernist? New Approaches to his Art, Poetry, and Cultural Theory’ (2017). Zusammenfassung 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discoveries, this book presents an authoritative reconstruction of David Jones’s The Grail Mass , the unfinished and unpublished project from which came both his masterpiece The Anathemata – a work described by W.H. Auden as ‘one of the most important poems of our times’ – and The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 In addition to the text of The Grail Mass , this edition includes a number of unpublished fragments by Jones that emerged from this larger project, complete with textual commentaries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part One: The Grail Mass A.) On Reading The Grail Mass : a commentary on the text’s development, fragmentation, and reconstructionB.) Text of The Grail Mass Part Two: A True Fragment, An Extraction, and A Variant A.) The Roman Dinner Conversation (Section XIV) A.1) A Commentary on The Roman Dinner Conversation A.2) Text of The Roman Dinner Conversation B.) Extraction from Keel Ram Stauros B.1) A Commentary on The Extraction from Keel Ram Stauros B.2) Text of The Extraction from Keel Ram Stauros C.) The BBC Variant of The Hunt C.1) A Commentary on the BBC variant of The Hunt C.2) Text of the BBC variant of The Hunt Part Three: Origins and Endings: A.) The Book of Balaam’s Ass A.1) A Commentary on The Book of Balaam’s Ass A.2) Text of The Book of Balaam’s Ass B.) The Absolom Mass B.1) A Commentary on The Absolom Mass B.2) Text of The Absolom Mass C.) The Kensington Mass C.1) A Commentary on The Kensington Mass C.2) Text of The Kensington Mass D.) Under Arcturus D.1) A Commentary on Under Arcturus D.2) Text of Under Arcturus NotesAfterword: The Grail Mass , The Anathemata , and The Sleeping Lord Appendix A: The Editing of The Grail Mass BibliographyIndex...
