UNLIKELY AS IT seems, senior Tories pondering the problem of how to revive their party’s fortunes in the great industrial cities and Celtic outlands could do worse than to read this book about the poet-painter David Jones. His story shows how one individual Briton in the twentieth century was able to re-imagine British history in ways which are culturally diverse and demotic, yet profoundly patriotic and conservative. How many radical artists, I wonder, can be said to have ahred Nevllle Chamberlain?

Literary Review

Jun 2003

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Peter Washington

Critical Mass

He was Moral, but Was He Great?

But What Was It?

Critical Thinking

Austen’s Onion

War Made Him

Sons of Scotland

A Child Of Nature

Less Is Moore

A Widower Writes

The Man and The Mask

Writer & Co

A Large Corpus

‘These Fragments I Have Shored Against my Ruins’

Remembrance of Paintings Past

Literary Lucubrations

It’s All Relative

Literary Legacies

Age Cannot Wither Us

The Outsider

The Birth of Sredni Vashtar

Out of the Fog

Classics Lite

Kierkegaard & Chocolate