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Grammar School, and by the time he left secondary education, he had all but lost his ability to speak Welsh fluently. However, he re-taught himself Welsh in later life, although his literary work was always in
English. After leaving Cyfarthfa Grammar, he gained a place at St Paul's College in Cheltenham.
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in 1905 into a Welsh-speaking household. His father was a post office clerk and his mother a teacher. Despite Welsh being his family language he was educated in
English, as were all attending mainstream education in Wales in the first half of the 20th century. Jones gained a place at Cyfarthfa Castle
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English. Although Jones was now a fluent Welsh speaker, he never wrote in his mother tongue, once stating that his Welsh was "...the language of adolescence, not the mother tongue, the artist will be likely to use for
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From an early age Jones was a devout
Christian; his parents being Welsh Nonconformists. Jones attended Sunday School as a child and in his later life he was a member of Minny Street Congregational Chapel in Cardiff. His religious beliefs and his Welshness informed all his creative work, even when
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send-up of the education system in a corrupt mining village. But despite reflecting ugly-natured teachers bribing their way to headships, there is no biting satire, and the book is full of comic tones, with Jones holding up a mirror to the flaws in human traits. His third novel,
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In his final years, Jones's health suffered. He was forced to have his right arm amputated, but he continued to correspond with fellow writers, in what he saw as a vital link in the history of Welsh literature. He died in
Cardiff on 10 April 1995.
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Jones continued writing, with a collection of poems being published in 1939. His first literary critique of poetry was of
English Romantic poetry, of which he shared a style of striking imagery and sensuous language, being drawn to both
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centred on a young artist, is full of description and character, though it was criticised by some reviewers for its lack of formal unity and overly exotic language. However, some critics, such as
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Caradoc Evans. After the visit, while the men shared a hotel room, Jones recalled the tale of Welsh eccentric
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for his contribution to the literature of Wales. He was also awarded an honorary Doctor of
Literature by the University of Glamorgan in 1994 and an Honorary Fellowship by
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to explore the pain of the loss of childhood. It is again told through the eyes of a young narrator.
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The Saga of Llywarch the Old: a reconstruction by Glyn Jones with the verse and interludes (with
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