The first full biography of a neglected genius and one of the great Modernists, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout
Thomas Dilworth is the pre-eminent reader and interpreter of the work of David Jones and has published extensively on the subject. His books include The Shape of Meaning in the Poetry of David Jones, Reading David Jones and David Jones in the Great War. He is the editor of Jones's illustrated Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Jones's Wedding Poems and Inner Necessities, the Letters of David Jones to Desmond Chute.
A gorgeous addition to the growing interest in David Jones,
lavishly illustrated with his dreamy engravings and
watercolours... Dilworth's meticulous, richly detailed
biography is the perfect introduction to a notoriously difficult
poet and a painter with a lightness of touch to stand beside Marc
Chagall and Raoul Dufy. -- Claire Lowdon * Sunday Times, 2017 Books
of the Year *
Pretty well the perfect biography. It does justice to an
artist who has been quite unaccountably overlooked by posterity;
perhaps being a genius in several modes - painting, engraving,
poetry - confuses critics... A wonderful life. -- Melanie
McDonagh * Evening Standard, Books of the Year *
It is lavishly illustrated and wonderfully well written. *
Observer, 2017 Books of the Year *
Thomas Dilworth, the leading scholar of Jones's work, has already
devoted several books to re-establishing his genius. Now, David
Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet - a biography 30 years
in the making - offers the fullest portrait we are ever likely
to have. Thanks to Dilworth's fastidious attention to detail (a
quality he shares with his subject), it is an enormously
absorbing read, full of the curious life of the imagination and the
colour-tinting of anecdote. -- Jeremy Noel-Tod * Daily
Telegraph *
This biography is a landmark. It would be good if it stirred
an interest not only in Jones as an artist and poet, but in the
questions he faced about modernity: what happens to art in a
culture where each thing is no more than itself, or its market
price? -- Rowan Williams * New Statesman *
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