David Jones's The Grail Mass and Other Works

Drawing on new archival discoveries this book presents an authoritative reconstruction of David Jones's <i>The Grail Mass</i> <i></i>the unfinished and unpublished project from which came both his masterpiece <i>The Anathemata -</i>a work described by W.H. Auden as 'one of the most important poems of our times' <i>-</i> and <i>The Sleeping Lord and other fragments</i> his final collection. With detailed commentary on the development and reconstruction of the text this edition provides a full picture of Jones's literary endeavours over the second half of his life and further establishes his status as a major figure in the first wave of British modernist writers alongside T.S. Eliot and James Joyce.<br/> <br/> In addition to the text of <i>The Grail Mass</i> this edition includes a number of unpublished fragments by Jones that emerged from this larger project complete with textual commentaries.