Artist, war poet, essayist and engraver, born Walter David Michael Jones. His most famous poem was "In Parenthesis", which was based on his experiences in the trences, where he served during the First World War. The poem was praised by T.S Eliot as a 'work of genius'. He firstly studied at the Camberwell School of Art, but the studies were interrupted with the outbreak of the War, and he joint the Royal Welch Fusiliers and served on the Western Front. After the war he entered the Westminster School of Art, where he became interested in Post-Impressionism due to the works of artist Walter Sickert. He later met Eric Gill who inspired him to incorporate more spirituality and symbolism in his work. He was elected to the "Seven and Five Society" and exhibited with Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. His work as a poet was as impressive as his paintings and sculpture. In 1985, he was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. The inscription on the stone was written by a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen. It reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity".
Artist, war poet, essayist and engraver, born Walter David Michael Jones. His most famous poem was "In Parenthesis", which was based on his experiences in the trences, where he served during the First World War. The poem was praised by T.S Eliot as a 'work of genius'. He firstly studied at the Camberwell School of Art, but the studies were interrupted with the outbreak of the War, and he joint the Royal Welch Fusiliers and served on the Western Front. After the war he entered the Westminster School of Art, where he became interested in Post-Impressionism due to the works of artist Walter Sickert. He later met Eric Gill who inspired him to incorporate more spirituality and symbolism in his work. He was elected to the "Seven and Five Society" and exhibited with Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. His work as a poet was as impressive as his paintings and sculpture. In 1985, he was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. The inscription on the stone was written by a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen. It reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity".
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