David Jones: Writer and Artist - Hardcover

Keith Alldritt

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9781841193793: David Jones: Writer and Artist

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841193798 ISBN 13: 9781841193793

Publisher: Constable, 2003

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David Jones was born in Brockley South London in 1895. His father, a printer, was a Welshman from Flint in North Wales. In David Jones's life and art his Welsh heritage was of central importance. In 1915 he enlisted in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and spent the next three years fighting in the trenches on the Western Front. They were prehaps the most significant years of his life and led to the writing of his masterpiece "In Parenthesis" which took him some 20 years to write and was not published until 1937. It was acclaimed by T.S. Eliot as "a masterpiece", and won the Hawthornden Prize. It records graphically the horrors of war but also the sense of human fellowship that developed between many soldiers fighting in the trenches together. In 1922 David Jones made friends with the sculptor Eric Gill, both were recent Catholic converts - and fell in love with Gill's daughter Petra. He continued painting until his death in May 1974, a few months after he had been made a Companion of Honour.

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Review:

Aldritt's is a . . . useful biography' Financial Times Magazine 'A valuable quasi-biography' Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph

A judicious assessment of Jones (life and reputation.' London Review of Books)

A fitting memorial to a great writer and human being. (Worcester Evening News)

About the Author:

Keith Aldritt has published ten books including studies of George Orwell, T.S. Eliot, and the literature of the Second World War. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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