One of the most important writers of twentieth-century Wales, and a master of the short-story form, Glyn Jones regarded himself as primarily a poet. During a lifetime's devotion to his craft, he wrote poems of exquisite subtlety and great power about the places and people which meant most to him. Many are set in Merthyr Tydfil, where he was born and brought up, in Cardiff, where he was for many years a teacher, and in rural Carmarthenshire, where his father's people had their roots.
This volume gathers all Glyn Jones's previously published poems, together with a number which are...
One of the most important writers of twentieth-century Wales, and a master of the short-story form, Glyn Jones regarded himself as primarily a poet. D...
Glyn Jones was one of the brilliant first generation of Welsh writers in English which included Dylan Thomas, Rhys Davies and Idris Davies. A major figure on the Welsh literary scene for almost sixty years, Glyn Jones s short stories are among his finest achievements; of his first collection, "The Blue Bed" (1937), Edward Garnett wrote, Glyn Jones is a genius ... his stories have a strange imaginative quality about them unlike anything else .
This volume is the first to bring together all Glyn Jones s short stories and includes I was born in the Ystrad Valley, a long story about an armed...
Glyn Jones was one of the brilliant first generation of Welsh writers in English which included Dylan Thomas, Rhys Davies and Idris Davies. A major...
First published in 1968, "The Dragon has Two Tongues" was the first book-length study of the English-language literature of Wales. Written by one of Wales s major English-language writers of fiction and poetry, it includes chapters dealing with the work of Dylan Thomas, Caradoc Evans, Jack Jones, Gwyn Thomas and Idris Davies, all of whom Glyn Jones knew personally.
This first-hand knowledge of the writers, coupled with the shrewdness of Glyn Jones s critical comments, established "The Dragon Has Two Tongues" as an invaluable study of this generation of Welsh writers. At the same time, it...
First published in 1968, "The Dragon has Two Tongues" was the first book-length study of the English-language literature of Wales. Written by one o...
