Despite his self-confessed ‘remoteness from politics’, David Jones was, in fact, an ardent Welsh nationalist, albeit an unconventional one, as his life, letters and specifically his poem ‘The Sleeping Lord’ reveal. On 15 July 1966, the writer and artist David Jones received a telephone call from his close friend, the Welsh nationalist Valerie Wynne Williams. […]
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