posted on 2024-05-02, 14:26authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Manuscript drafts concerning 'In Parenthesis' (one dated May 1951). |
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Manuscript draft concerning 'In Parenthesis' dated May 1951 explaining the sketch-map facing page 193 and the frontispiece. Manuscript sketch-map of trenches facing page 193 and the frontispiece. Manuscript draft concerning 'In Parenthesis'. Appears to contain David Jones' answers to a correspondent's queries about the inspiration behind Part VII of the poem, which Jones suggests was based on the experience of an offensive of December 1915 as well as the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916. Notes related to 'In Parenthesis'.