{"product_id":"poet-of-the-medieval-modern-9780198860143","title":"Poet of the Medieval Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe early Middle Ages provided twentieth-century poets with the material to re-imagine and rework local, religious, and national identities in their writing. Poet of the Medieval Modern focuses on a key figure within this tradition, the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974): representing the first extended study of the influence of early medieval English culture and history on Jones and his novel-length late modernist poem The Anathemata (1952). Jones''s second major poetic project after In Parenthesis (1937), The Anathemata fuses Jones''s visual and verbal arts to write a Catholic history of Britain as told through the history of man-as-artist. Drawing on unpublished archival material including manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and, most significantly, the marginalia from David Jones''s Library, this volume reads with Jones in order to trouble the distinction between poetry and scholarship. Placing this underappreciated figure firmly at the centre of new development\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoet of the Medieval Modern is a welcome and necessary study of how Old English language and history enabled Jones to think through his artistic, religious, and cultural preoccupations. * Paul Robichaud, Albertus Magnus College, Modern Philology *\u003cbr\u003ePoet of the Medieval Modern is an impressive and worthwhile read for its original archival research,...While this monograph will most deeply interest Jones scholars, other readers interested in modernist engagements with early medieval texts and modernist re-imaginings of history will find themselves rewarded with fresh insights into both topics through the extraordinary depth of Jones's poetry. * Journal of Modern Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: 'Accidents of long past history': Medieval Modern Anglo-Welsh Identities 1: Reading with David Jones: The Anglo-Saxon Library and the Palimpsest of the Poem 2: An Alfredian Reading Project: The Literary Preface and the Reshaping of a British Catholic Community 3: A Poetic Historiography of the Early English Settlements: Reading History with David Jones in 'Angle-Land' 4: 'He'll latin-runes tellan in his horror-coat standing': Saint Guthlac and the Lost Narrative of the Britons in the Early Medieval Fenland 5: 'The Axile Tree': Northumbria, Anglo-Welsh Christian Tradition, and the Ruthwell Monument Conclusion Appendix 1: The Anglo-Saxon Library Appendix 2: Compounds with Old English Roots in The Anathemata Appendix 3: Lines 39-41 of The Dream of the Rood cited in correspondence Appendix 4: Extracts from two letters on the Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century and the Augustinian Conversion Bibliography","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732817326423,"sku":"9780198860143","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198860143.jpg?v=1719998525","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poet-of-the-medieval-modern-9780198860143","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}