Volume 27, Number 15 · October 9, 1980
The Last of the Modernists
By D.S. Carne-Ross
The Dying Gaul and Other Writings
by David Jones, edited by Harman Grisewood
Faber & Faber (distributed by Merrimack Book Service), 230 pp., $23.50
Introducing David Jones
edited by John Matthias
Faber & Faber (distributed by Merrimack Book Service), 240 pp., $12.95 (paper)
It is unusual that a poet as considerable as those who know his work believe David Jones to be should remain so little known for so long. [1] It can hardly be mere chance, though chance may enter into it. The problem (itself one we are critically not quite at home with) is in part that the positions Jones held, the beliefs he lived and wrote from, are to many people now so remote as to be little more than nonsense. And yet you are probably not going to get far with his work, except for the formal interest of his technique, without taking his beliefs seriously and perhaps even allowing that he might just be right, at least some of the way.
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