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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... Greek mythos and our myth is , in fact , a begging of the question . He can say that there is this loss only by attributing to the Greek word a meaning it never bore , which he wishes to attach to the English word . The whole series of ...
... Greek mythos and our myth is , in fact , a begging of the question . He can say that there is this loss only by attributing to the Greek word a meaning it never bore , which he wishes to attach to the English word . The whole series of ...
Page 34
... Greek Philosophy , pp . 156ff . Here D. ( as so often ) notes his debt to Christopher Dawson ; readers of the opening chapters of The Age of the Gods will recognise how Dawson provided the concrete historical framework on which ' Rite ...
... Greek Philosophy , pp . 156ff . Here D. ( as so often ) notes his debt to Christopher Dawson ; readers of the opening chapters of The Age of the Gods will recognise how Dawson provided the concrete historical framework on which ' Rite ...
Page 108
... Greek artists who decorated the temple , Damophilus and Gorgasus , inscribed their names on the walls , and he added that the work of the former would be found on the right and that of the latter on the left . ( Pliny , N.H. , 25.154 ) ...
... Greek artists who decorated the temple , Damophilus and Gorgasus , inscribed their names on the walls , and he added that the work of the former would be found on the right and that of the latter on the left . ( Pliny , N.H. , 25.154 ) ...
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