The Anathemata Av David Jones

<p>''The Anathemata can scarcely fail to be counted a great book... It does what Epic is meant to do. It gives a philosophic view, tenable for our times, of the secret places where nature finds reconciliation with the Divine.'' <i>The Listener</i><br><br><i>''In Parenthesis</i> is one of the enduring works that came out of the first world war. <i>The Anathemata</i> is more obviously a poem, in the sense in which Pound''s Cantos is a poem. . . Both his books -- like his paintings -- have a thrice-distilled quality of finality and impersonality, like Gothic stone-carvings or the paintings on the walls of the Lascaux caves.'' Kathleen Raine</p>