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Walter David Jones CH, CBE (known as David Jones, 1 November 1895 – 28 October 1974) was both a painter and one of the first-generation British modernist poets. As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolour, painting portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engraver and designer of inscriptions.

David Jones (19) ‎– Poets Of Wales. Label: Argo (2) ‎– PLP 1180, Argo (2) ‎– PL. 180. Written-By, Read By – David Jones (19). Recorded on behalf of the Welsh Arts council and in association with The British Council and the Poetry Room in the Lamont Library of Harvard University. Recorded in Harrow, London. Sleeve front design by Design Systems, Cardiff.

David Jones (1895-1974) was an accomplished artist who produced watercolours, illustrations and inscriptions, and who also gained acclaim as a poet, especially as the author of In Parenthesis in 1937, and the long prose poem The Anathemata in 1952. David Walter Jones was born in Brockley, Kent, on 1 November 1895. The Sleeping Lord (1974) and The Roman Quarry (1981) were published posthumously. In 1955 he was awarded the CBE, and also the Harriet Monroe memorial prize. In 1960 he was awarded the degree of D. Litt from The University of Wales and became both Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1961. He was awarded the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales Gold medal in 1964 and the Welsh Arts Council Literature Prize in 1969. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru The National Library of Wales.

Becoming a missionary David travelled throughout Wales and Britain and even made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem where he was consecrated bishop. He founded 12 monasteries including Glastonbury and one at Minevia (St. Davids) which he made his bishops seat. He was named Archbishop of Wales at the Synod of Brevi (Llandewi Brefi), Cardiganshire in 550. Monastery life was very strict, the brothers having to work very hard, cultivating the land and pulling the plough. Many crafts were followed – beekeeping, in particular, was very important.

David Blamires points out in David Jones: Artist and Writer that in length and overall structure. The poem is divided into seven parts, and tells the story of Private John Ball and his company from their embarkation from England in December 1915 to their participation in the Somme battle of July 1916. Kathleen Raine in her book David Jones and the Actually Loved and Known states, The poet does not thrust his facts upon us, but rather uses these to remind us of our own, often untreasured but none the less precious, fragments of the same totality. Instead Jones concentrates on the universal legacies of mankind. From Apollinaire to Rilke, and from Brooke to Sassoon: a sampling of war poets.

David Jones (1895-1974). Frontispiece to 'In Parenthesis', 1937, the Christ-like figure of the common man, caught in the predicament of war. Capel-y-ffin, a watercolour of 1926-7, given by David Jones to Eric Gill. Trystan ac Essylt, a highly complex watercolour completed in 1963, showing the doomed lovers of Arthurian legend

David Jones was born on 1 November 1895 in Brockley, Kent, the son of James Jones, a printer from Flintshire and his wife Alice, from Rotherhithe, Surrey. He served as a private during the First World War and some twenty years later In Parenthesis, his epic poem recalling those experiences, was published. A colourful manuscript map showing the various phases of the battle for Mametz Wood, the subject of In Parenthesis (Part VII).

We finally arrive at the Dantean conclusion – my favourite part. The mythic Queen of the Woods symbolically recognizes the goodness of the soldiers by transforming them into ‘sweet princes’ with floral diadems. The poignant episode is enhanced by the concept that all the soldiers, German and British, are ‘worthy of an intelligent song for all the stupidity of their contest’