Words from the bombsites: Debris, modernism and literary salvage

Critical Quarterly

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 77-90

  Mellor, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 36549048089     PISSN: 00111562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0011-1562.2004.00598.x     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909-1962 (London: Faber, 1963), 77
2. Introduction to The Bombed Buildings of Britain (London: Architectural Press, 1942), 3
3. I'm especially thinking of Mark Rawlinson, British Writing of the Second World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
4. and Adam Piette, Imagination at War - British Fiction and Poetry 1939-1945 (London: Papermac 1995)
5. David Jones, Wedding Poems, ed. Thomas Dilworth (London: Enitharmon, 2002)
6. David Jones, The Anathemata (London, Faber, 1952), 9
7. Jones, Wedding Poems, 33
8. William Wootten, 'At the Thirteenth Hour', London Review of Books, 25 September 2003, 27-8
9. Jones, The Anathemata, 62
10. Rose Macaulay, The World My Wilderness (London: Collins, 1950), 129
11. Letter to Daniel George, quoted in Jane Emery, Rose Macaulay: A Writer's Life (London: John Murray, 1991), 267
12. First published in Britain in Constance Babington Smith's Rose Macaulay: A Life (London: Collins, 1972), 161-70
13. Letter to Victor Gollancz, quoted in Emery, Rose Macaulay, 268
14. Macaulay, The World My Wilderness, 181
15. R. S. R. Fitter, The Natural History of London (London: Collins, 1945), 265-8
16. This quotation still had enough lyrical cultural potency to also be used as the opening for Bryan Appleyard's The Pleasures of Peace (London: Faber, 1989), 3
17. William Shakespeare, Othello, IV.3, The Complete Works, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988)
18. Davis Gascoyne, Selected Poems (London: Enitharmon, 1994), 119
19. Personal conversation with David Gascoyne, June 1999
20. Gascoyne, Selected Poems, 250
21. David Jones, The Sleeping Lord and other fragments (London: Faber, 1974), 9