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 105
... Welsh legend , or in material mixed with Welsh legend , she is almost Britannia herself . In that tangled story she passes from pseudo - history into the realm of true myth ' - a revealing phrase that can only mean D.'s ' myth in the ...
... Welsh legend , or in material mixed with Welsh legend , she is almost Britannia herself . In that tangled story she passes from pseudo - history into the realm of true myth ' - a revealing phrase that can only mean D.'s ' myth in the ...
Page 157
... Welsh boatswain ( p.149 ) to introduce ( pp . 149–54 ) a number of Welsh legends . Of these she concludes ( p.154 ) ' ' T were too much . Yet , you could not choose but hear , for as parson say of Chrysostom , his tongue could tell ...
... Welsh boatswain ( p.149 ) to introduce ( pp . 149–54 ) a number of Welsh legends . Of these she concludes ( p.154 ) ' ' T were too much . Yet , you could not choose but hear , for as parson say of Chrysostom , his tongue could tell ...
Page 226
... Welsh tradition , legend , and language as he is in doing the same for the classical world ? His own Welsh creations are eminently successful : the witches here , for example , and the various Celts in his Roman pieces ( '73 Crixus , in ...
... Welsh tradition , legend , and language as he is in doing the same for the classical world ? His own Welsh creations are eminently successful : the witches here , for example , and the various Celts in his Roman pieces ( '73 Crixus , in ...
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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