David Jones (artist-poet), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David Jones (artist-poet)

painter and British modernist poet

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1895

Place of Birth: Brockley, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 28-Oct-1974

Profession: writer, poet, illustrator, painter

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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.
As a writer he was considered by T.
S.
Eliot to be of major importance, and his work The Anathemata was considered by W.
H.
Auden to be the best long poem written in English in the 20th century.
Help in forming his work came from his Christian beliefs and Welsh heritage.