A Commentary on The Anathemata of David JonesThe poem is a symbolic, dramatic anatomy of historical western culture. Composed of eight sections, it narrates the thought processes of one cambrophile (lover of all things Welsh) English Catholic at Mass over the span of roughly seven seconds. |
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Page 234
... Christ's Last Supper , which the Synop- tics put on the day before , i.e. on the Thursday evening , must therefore be explained in one of two ways : either a whole section of the Jewish people thus anticipated the rite , or ( and this ...
... Christ's Last Supper , which the Synop- tics put on the day before , i.e. on the Thursday evening , must therefore be explained in one of two ways : either a whole section of the Jewish people thus anticipated the rite , or ( and this ...
Page 246
... Christ : divine pre- . existence , kenôsis in the Incarnation , his further kenôsis in death , his glorification , adoration by the cosmos , new title of Lord . This hymn is concerned solely with the historical Christ , in whose ...
... Christ : divine pre- . existence , kenôsis in the Incarnation , his further kenôsis in death , his glorification , adoration by the cosmos , new title of Lord . This hymn is concerned solely with the historical Christ , in whose ...
Page 247
... Christ offered bread and wine . D. seizes on the same point as did early Christian writers , some of whom , following the first - century Philo Judaeus , exalted Melchisedek to the position of a pre - incarnation of the Logos ...
... Christ offered bread and wine . D. seizes on the same point as did early Christian writers , some of whom , following the first - century Philo Judaeus , exalted Melchisedek to the position of a pre - incarnation of the Logos ...
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adjective Aeneas Aeneid allusion Anathemata Aphrodite artefacture Britain British called Calvary Capel-y-ffin Celtic Christ Christian church cosmocrats Cronos cross culture D.'s note death Demeter Dies Irae divine dolorous stroke Eleusis Epoch and Artist Eucharist focsle Geoffrey of Monmouth Greek Gwenhwyfar Helen Hog-eye Homeric Keel Kensington Mass king Lady land Last Supper later Latin legend liturgy London Mabinogion Manawydan Mary mast master meaning metaphor Middle-Sea and Lear-Sea mind mother mystery myth Odysseus paragraph Parenthesis passage Persephone phrase poem poet poet's pomoerium priest quoted reader reference reminder Rite and Fore-time ritual river rock Roman Rome runes sacrament sacrifice sail says sense ship Sibyl skipper Sleeping Lord speaking Stauros stone Stow suggested symbol Telphousa Terramara theme thing timber tion tree Triptolemus Troy upper room Vergil vessel voyage wattled Welsh wind word writes