T. Gwynn Jones
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Professor Thomas Gwynn Jones
Personal life
Thomas Jones was born at Y Gwyndy Uchaf in
Career
1890s-1900s Journalism
Always of a fragile physical disposition, Jones was unable to take up a scholarship to
In 1902 however he won the coveted chair at the
In 1905 he became editor of the journal Papur Pawb, ushering in a period of intense productivity, producing, in the space of only a few years some five novels and over two hundred short stories, as well as a second chair in 1908. This led ultimately to a physical collapse, leading to a tour of the Mediterranean and Egypt to recouperate.
1910s-1940s: Academia and Retirement
He wrote a famous biography of the great Liberal publisher
His major academic work was an edition of the fifteenth-century poet, Tudur Aled.
A strong opponent of the
He was awarded
Influence
T. Gwynn Jones's writings had a significant influence on Robert Graves in his mythopoeic study The White Goddess. Graves developed his suggestion of a distinction between the restricted poetry of the official Welsh bards, and the more expansive and fanciful unofficial Welsh writings: "The tales and Romances, on the other hand, are full of colour and incident; even characterization is not absent from them. In them fancy...develops into imagination".[4]
Published works
Novels & Short Stories
- Gwedi Brad a Gofid (1898)
- Brethyn Cartref (Short Stories; 1913; stories originally published in magazines between 1906-08)
- Gorchest Gwilym Bevan (1899) - English translation The Great Deed of Gwilym Bevan published 2024.[5]
- John Homer (1923; original serial 1908)
- Lona (1923; original serial 1908)
Poetry
- Gwlad y Gân a cherddi eraill (1902)
- Caniadau (1934)
- Y Dwymyn (1944)
- (trans.), Awen y Gwyddyl (1922) – translated Irish poetry.
- (trans.), Blodau o Hen Ardd (1927) – translated Greek epigrams.
- (trans.), Faust by Goethe(1922)
Academic and Other Works
- Astudiaethau (1936)
- Bardism and Romance (1914)
- Beirniadaeth a Myfyrdod (1935)
- Brithgofion (1944)
- Cofiant Thomas Gee (1913)
- Cymeriadau (1933)
- Dyddgwaith (1937)
- Eglwys y Dyn Tlawd (1892)
- Emrys ap Iwan. Cofiant (1912)
- (ed.) Gwaith Tudur Aled, 2 vols., (1926)
- Llenyddiaeth Y Cymry (1915)
- Rhieingerddi'r Gogynfeirdd (1915)
- (trans.) Visions of the Sleeping Bard (1940)
- Welsh Folklore and Welsh Folk-custom (1930)[1]
References
- ^ JSTOR 1259472
- ^ Shipton, Martin (30 December 2014), "The First World War, pacifism, and the cracks in Wales' Nonconformism movement", WalesOnline, retrieved 9 December 2019
- ^ "No. 34396". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 May 1937. p. 3089.
- ^ Quoted in Graves, Robert (1997), The White Goddess, Manchester, pp. 14–15
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ www.melinbapur.cymru The Great Deed of Gwilym Bevan