← David JonesThe Anathemataby David JonesComplex poem drawing on Welsh mythology and Catholic mysticismFind on Amazon↗About the authorDavid JonesWelsh poet and artist whose In Parenthesis and The Anathemata are long poems of extraordinary density, incorporating myth, religion, and personal experience of World War I. He is one of the most important and difficult of twentieth-century poets.More by David JonesIn ParenthesisModernist poem documenting World War I trench experience with experimental form→The Sleeping LordPosthumous collection of fragmentary poems on war and spiritual themes→