id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2315 In Parenthesis - Wikipedia .html text/html 1370 121 68 In Parenthesis is an epic poem of the First World War by David Jones first published in England in 1937. Based on Jones's own experience as an infantryman, In Parenthesis narrates the experiences of English Private John Ball in a mixed English-Welsh regiment starting with embarkation from England and ending seven months later with the assault on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme. H. Auden considered it "a masterpiece," "the greatest book about the First World War" that he had read, a work in which Jones did "for the British and the Germans what Homer did for the Greeks and the Trojans" in "a masterpiece" comparable in quality to The Divine Comedy. "David Jones, the Heroic Vision", English Poetry of the First World War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. BBC documentary – "The Greatest Poem of World War One: David Jones's In Parenthesis" ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2315.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2315.txt