David Jones (artist poet)
Walter David Jones CH was both a painter and one of the firstgeneration British modernist poets. As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolour, painting portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a woodengraver and designer of inscriptions. As a writer he was considered by T. S. Eliot to be of major importance, and his The Anathemata was considered by W. H. Auden to be the best long poem written in English in the twentieth century. His Christian beliefs and Welsh heritage helped form his work.
Jones was born onNovember 1895 in Arabin Road, Brockley, Kent, now a suburb of South East London, and later lived in nearby Howson Road. His father, James Jones, had been born in Flintshire in north Wales, to a Welshspeaking family but was discouraged from speaking Welsh by his father, who, in common with many Welshspeaking parents of the time, believed that habitual use of the language might hold his child back in his career. James Jones had moved to London to work as a printers overseer for the Christian Herald Press, and it was here that he had met his wife, Alice, a Londoner born and bred. They had three children Harold , Alice, and David.
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