Tag: modernism
RS Thomas: His Life and Writing
Tony Brown on an exhibition that challenges some stereotypes and secures the importance of the influence of Elsi Eldridge upon her husband RS Thomas’ …
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A Mind of Winter: Notes on Exile
As every immigrant knows, Rebecca Ruth Gould writes of the poet Ilya Kaminsky (and other exiles), everything you thought you knew, you have to learn a …
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David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet
TS Eliot called David Jones’ epic poem In Parenthesis ‘a work of genius’, while WH Auden considered it to be ‘the greatest book about the First World …
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The Art of David Jones: Vision and Memory
David Jones (1895–1974) is better known as a poet than an artist. His first book-length poem, In Parenthesis, published by Faber & Faber in 1937 – …
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Athene Palace: Hitler’s ‘New Order’ Comes to Rumania
Someone interested in the emergence of modern Europe and the literature that shaped and recorded it should write a book about the grand hotels of the …
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The Happy-go-lucky Morgans
The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans anticipates many of the anxieties that would go on to define the period known as Modernism. Three years earlier, in 1910, V …
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