T. Gwynn Jones
1871–1949
Biography
T. Gwynn Jones, whose full name was Thomas Gwynn Jones, was a Welsh poet, scholar, critic, novelist, translator and journalist, and one of the most influential Welsh writers and scholars of his generation. He was born in 1871 in Betws-yn-Rhos, in Denbighshire, in north Wales. He won the chair at the National Eisteddfod twice, one of the most prized honours in Welsh poetry.
His work reached across the whole of Welsh cultural life. He translated writing from German, Greek, Irish and English into Welsh, he studied the folk tales of Wales at a time when they were being recorded and valued as national heritage, and he played an important part in Welsh education. In later life he held a professorship at Aberystwyth. Among his poems, the long Welsh-language work Ymadawiad Arthur (The Passing of Arthur) is one of his best-known achievements.
On this site he is represented by Brethyn Cartref: Ystraeon Cymreig, a title that means homespun cloth. It gathers fifteen short stories of country life in Wales, written in Welsh with humour and a fond eye for ordinary people, and it shows a side of his writing far removed from his verse. The fuller details here come from the English reference article, so check them against it.
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Books
Brethyn Cartref: Ystraeon Cymreig
by T. Gwynn Jones
Homespun, as the title says: fifteen short stories of Welsh country life by the poet and scholar T. Gwynn Jones. A sheepdog with more sense than most men, a couple who come back to look for the home they left, a preacher's one memorable sermon, a village poet, a boy's first love…
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