Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Drawing on new archival discoveries, this book presents an authoritative reconstruction of David Jones's The Grail Mass, the unfinished and unpublished second part of his masterpiece The Anathemata - a work described by W.H. Auden as "one of the most important poems of our times." With detailed commentary throughout on the text, its development and the process of reconstruction, this edition sheds new light on David Jones's increasingly recognized status as a major figure in the first wave of British modernist writers alongside T.S. Eliot and James Joyce.
Alongside the text of The Grail Mass this edition includes a number of additional unpublished fragments by Jones that emerged from his larger project, complete with textual commentaries.