In parenthesis - David Jones

No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier
poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of
1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by
leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war
poets introduced by leading poets and biographers of our present day.

'In Parenthesis
was first published in London in 1937. I am proud to share the
responsibility for that first publication. On reading the book in
typescript I was deeply moved. I then regarded it, and still regard it,
as a work of genius... Here is a book about the experience of one
soldier in the war of 1914-18. It is also a book about War, and about
many other things also, such as Roman Britain, the Arthurian Legend, and
divers matters which are given association by the mind of the writer.'
T.S. Eliot

'This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt,
and was part of ': with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is
among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage
of the First World War. Fusing poetry and prose, gutter talk and high
music, wartime terror and ancient myth, Jones, who served as an
infantryman on the Western Front, presents a picture at once panoramic
and intimate of a world of interminable waiting and unforeseen death.
And yet throughout he remains alert to the flashes of humanity that
light up the wasteland of war.' W.S. Merwin