Forgotten masterpiece …

… The first world war's great novelist: David Jones | Fiction | The Guardian (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Composed of free verse and prose, In Parenthesis is at once a poem, a novel, and a singular combination of both. It is a classic, both of war literature and of modernism. You wouldn't think the British Isles had produced enough significant modernist works to ignore one of the best, yet Jones's work remains woefully neglected. Not that it has lacked advocacy. TS Eliot thought it "a work of genius" …