@article{1380694,
      author = {Staudt, Kathleen Henderson,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1380694},
      title = {At the turn of a civilization : David Jones and modern  poetics /},
      publisher = {University of Michigan Press,},
      abstract = {The British poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974), much  praised in his lifetime by such important contemporaries as  T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, is only now beginning to receive  the attention that his challenging and carefully wrought  work deserves. Jones saw his own era as "the turn of a  civilization": a pivotal moment in Western history when a  once unified and humane culture, rooted in nature and  ritual, was in the midst of corruption, losing its sacred  center. He was perhaps best known in his lifetime for his  long poem In Parenthesis (1937), which draws on the poet's  experience in the trenches of the First World War. Jones's  later work is an ongoing exploration of his fascination  with the mythic and religious themes already evident in  this early poem. His last volume, The Sleeping Lord and  Other Fragments (1974), affirms the enduring value of  native cultural traditions against the dehumanizing  tendencies of imperialism.},
      recid = {1380694},
      pages = {viii, 216 pages ;},
      address = {Ann Arbor :},
      year = {1994},
}