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William D. Jones served in the Union army for 3 years. During that time, he wrote many letters to his mother, Mary Gregg Jones, in Pittsburgh. The author has edited and annotated these letters and has written a short biography of William's life. Related families : Barnes, Bartels, Drouillard, Eicher, Farrell, Fawcett, Gregg, Jones, Lawn, Long, Lowe, McAleese, McAnespey, Newell, Patridge, Philips, Reese, Thomas, Williams.
This text vividly presents life on the front line, challenging the accepted wisdom about David Jones's service and illuminating the man and his work. Accompanying the text are photos of Jones and wartime sketches and writing, for the best part previously unpublished, and 7 fully rendered drawings not seen since the war.
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Published to coincide with the centenary of David Jones' birth, a collection of the artist's sketches from World War One, which provide a graphic portrayal of life in the front line trenches. The pictures are interspersed with passages of Jones' writing, from his war poem IN PARENTHESIS to his letters and journals.
David Jones's 'Anathemata' is a spiritual and historical poem which looks at the West and in particular Britain.
The first full biography of a neglected genius and one of the great Modernists, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout ‘I would like to have done anything as good as David Jones has done’ Dylan Thomas As a poet, visual artist and essayist, David Jones is one of the great Modernists. The variety of his gifts reminds us of Blake – though he is a better poet and a greater all-round artist. Jones was an extraordinary engraver, painter and creator of painted inscriptions, but he also belongs in the first rank of twentieth-century poets. Though he was admired by some of the finest cultural figures of the twentieth century, David Jones is not known or celebrated in the way that Eliot, Beck...
Brings to light critiques of modern tyranny written by German socialist intellectuals before and during World War II about the definition, origins, nature, and means of overcoming totalitarianism.
David S. Jones was born 3 November 1777 in West Neck, Queens, New York. His parents were Samuel Jones and Cornelia Herring. He married Margaret Jones, Susan Le Roy and Mary Clinton and had a total of eighteen children. He was a lawyer. He died 10 May 1848 in New York.
This book offers a concise and highly readable account of the visual art of David Jones (1895-1974). It challenges the simplistic view of Jones as an outsider or an eccentric, exploring his work instead in relation to the wider cultural and intellectual climate of his times.
Through a selection of letters to friends and literary peers, Dai Greatcoat presents a rare insight into the life of the poet and artist David Jones and in so doing offers an autobiographical portrait of the author in his own words.