Douglas Gordon "D. G." Jones (January 1, 1929 – March 6, 2016) was a Canadian poet, translator and educator.[1]
Born in Bancroft, Ontario, Jones was educated at the private school of Lakefield College School in Ontario, at McGill University and at Queen's University. He received his M.A. from Queen's University in 1954. Jones then taught English literature at the University of Guelph, then Bishop's University and finally the Université de Sherbrooke. In 1969, Jones co-founded the bilingual literary journal Ellipse, which continues to be the only literary periodical in Canada which provides reciprocal translations, in equal measure, of both English and French Canadian poetry.
Considered a seminal figure of the mythopoeic strain of Canadian poetry, Jones is also a highly respected essayist and translator. His key work of critical writing is Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature (1970).
Bibliography
Poetry
Frost on the Sun (1957)
The Sun is Axeman (1961)
Phrases from Orpheus (1967)
Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth (1977)
A Throw of Particles (1983)
Balthazar and Other Poems (1988)
A Thousand Hooded Eyes (1990)
The Floating Garden (1995)
Wild Asterisks in Cloud (1997)
Grounding Sight (1999)
The Stream Exposed with All its Stones (2009)
The Essential D. G. Jones (2016)
Criticism
Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature (1970)
Translations
Paul-Marie Lapointe. The Terror of the Snows: Selected Poems (1976)
Paul-Marie Lapointe. The Fifth Season (1986)
Normand de Bellefeuille, Categorics One, Two, Three (1992)
Gaston Miron. Embers and Earth: Selected Poems (1994)