In 1938 T. S. Eliot called "In Parenthesis" a "work of genius"; Graham Greene in 1980 put it "among the great poems of the century". W. H. Auden termed "The Anathemata" "one of the most important poems of our time" and in 1977 "probably the finest long poem in English" of the 20th century. In 1962 Igor Stravinsky saw Jones as "perhaps the greatest living writer in English", and in 1964 Herbert Read called him "one of the greatest writers of our time". In 1974 he was made a Companion of Honour, a high honour which is restricted to 65 living members.