Liturgy, performance, and poetry of the passion: David Jones and The Dream of the Rood

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dc.contributor.authorBrooks, Francesca
dc.contributor.funderUK Arts and Humanities Research Council, PhD studentship
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-10T15:50:05Z
dc.date.available2026-03-10T15:50:05Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractIn essays and correspondence, as well as in his poetry, David Jones continued to return to the image of the Anglo-Saxon ‘Dreaming Tree’ as he meditated upon the central image of the Catholic Church and of the liturgy, that of the Passion. This article explores David Jones’s interest in the tenth-century Vercelli Book poem The Dream of the Rood and its wider tradition, and brings new knowledge from Early Medieval English Studies to bear on Jones’s late modernist poem, The Anathemata (1952). Drawing on archival research from The Library of David Jones, National Library of Wales, this paper argues that Jones’s poetic reworking of The Dream of the Rood in visual and verbal media offers a perceptive and informed response to the liturgical and vernacular contexts that may have produced The Dream of the Rood in the tenth century. Although discussions of Jones’s use of The Dream of the Rood often focus upon the image of the sacrificial cross and the trope of the Miles Christi, this paper suggests that Jones’s interest lay in how the poem might be seen to respond to the multisensory and performative dimensions of the Christian liturgy.en
dc.description.sponsorshipFunded by an AHRC PhD studentship through the London Arts and Humanities Partnership
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dc.identifier.authororcidBrooks, Francesca§0000-0002-5486-3560
dc.identifier.citationBrooks, F 2018, 'Liturgy, performance, and poetry of the passion : David Jones and The Dream of the Rood', Religion and Literature, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 83-92.
dc.identifier.endpage92
dc.identifier.issn0888-3769
dc.identifier.issued1
dc.identifier.journaltitleReligion and Literature
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-5486-3560/work/208087899
dc.identifier.startpage83
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18616
dc.identifier.volume49
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Notre Dame
dc.rights© 2017, the author. Published by the University of Notre Dame.
dc.rights.accessrightsopen access
dc.statusPeer reviewed
dc.subjectMedievalism
dc.subjectMedieval studies
dc.subjectTheology
dc.subjectLiturgy
dc.subjectArchives
dc.subjectModernism
dc.subjectPoetry
dc.subject[EnglishDigitalHumanities]
dc.titleLiturgy, performance, and poetry of the passion: David Jones and The Dream of the Rooden
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)
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