Brian Jones
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British poet, born 1938
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Brian Jones was a British poet. He was educated at Ealing County Grammar School for Boys and Selwyn College, Cambridge. Jones' first major collection, Poems , was published in 1966, and proved to be successful. Those poems dealt with both the joy and the unease that may be present beneath the surface of what seems to be placid middle-class domesticity. This was very much in a style popular in the 1950s and 1960s, and Jones was described by Edward Lucie-Smith in a 1970 anthology of post-war British poetry as "certainly one of the very best practitioners of this overworked vein". Subsequent critical assessments of his work have included the following:
