The AnathemataDavid Jones David Joness The Anathemata: Very probably the finest long poem written in English this century. W. H Auden The Anathemata can scarcely fail to be counted a great book It does what Epic is meant to do. It gives a philosophic view, tenable for our times, of the secret places where nature finds reconciliation with the Divine. The Listener In Parenthesis is one of the enduring works that came out of the first world war. The Anathemata is more