Table of Contents

Editorial Preface to Modernist Archives
Acknowledgements
Editors and Contributors
Illustrations

Foreword
Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge, UK

Introduction
Thomas Berenato, University of Virginia, USA

Letter to Neville Chamberlain, 18 December 1938
Oliver Bevington, Aberystwyth University, UK

Essay on Adolf Hitler, 11 May 1939
Tom Villis, Regent’s University London, UK

Essay on Gerard Manley Hopkins, c. 1968
Thomas Berenato, University of Virginia, USA

Mabon Studios Interview, 31 August - 3 September 1973
Jasmine Hunter Evans, University of Exeter, UK, and Anne Price-Owen, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Swansea Campus, UK

Conclusion
Kathleen Henderson Staudt, Virginia Theological Seminary and Wesley Theological Seminary, USA

Appendix: Abridged Edition of David Jones's Essay on Gerard Manley Hopkins
Kathleen Henderson Staudt, Virginia Theological Seminary and Wesley Theological Seminary, USA

Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

With commentary and annotation throughout, this book makes available for the first time previously unpublished writings by the influential modernist poet David Jones, including statements on Hitler, art, and faith.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

Bloomsbury Academic includes four unpublished David Jones texts in this new volume in its "Modernist Archives" series ...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.
*The Tablet*

David Jones (1895–1974) is acknowledged increasingly as a pioneering poet and visual artist … This addition to the Jones corpus confirms those judgments while opening new lines of scholarly inquiry, particularly concerning his stances on crucial, and controversial, political issues of his era … Kathleen Henderson Staudt provides a capacious, judicious historiographical survey that orients tyros to this burgeoning field while enriching veteran scholars’ interpretations. Staudt’s distilled edition of the Hopkins essay presents Jones’s reflections on the Victorian poet-priest as a proleptic modernist and on the resultant “mystery” of profound affinities existing between artists separated by decades, even centuries. Thomas Berenato’s exhaustive manuscript study of this article further includes cogent encapsulations of core aspects of Jones’s worldview, especially his theology and aesthetics, many of which are reiterated in the 1973 interview and which informed his political outlook.
*The University Bookman*