Poet of the Medieval Modern: Reading the Early Medieval Library with David Jones

by Brooks and Francesca Brooks

Book Overview

The 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198860145
• ISBN13: 9780198860143
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"