In Parenthesis

沒有一種詩比出自一次世界大戰的士兵所寫的詩更觸動人心的了。《The Great War Poets》系列這次重新編排了四個世界大戰時英勇參戰的戰地詩人，其中包含了Siegfried Sassoon、Wilfred Owen、Robert Graves、Edward Thomas、Rupert Brooke和David Jones。（見下方連結）

'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 diverse 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

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>> 《Siegfried Sassoon》
>> 《Wilfred Owen》
>> 《Rupert Brooke》
>> 《Rupert Graves》
>> 《Edward Thomass》