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Jones, Doug, 1929-2016
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Dates of existence
1929-2016
History
Douglas Gordon Jones or "D. G." was born on January 1, 1929, in Bancroft, Ontario.
He was a Canadian poet, literary critic, translator, and educator. He attended McGill University (B.A., 1952) and Queen's University (M.A., 1954). He taught English literature at the Royal Military College, Kingston (1954-1955), Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph (1955-1961), Bishop's University (1961-1963) and the University of Sherbrooke (1963-1994). In 1969, Jones co-founded Ellipse: Writers in translation, the only Canadian bilingual literary magazine in which English and French poetry were reciprocally translated. His collection "Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth" (1977) received the 1978 Governor General's Award for Poetry. His translation of Normand de Bellefeuille's “Categorics: One, Two and Three” received the 1993 Governor General's Award for Translation. His key work of Canadian literary criticism is “Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature” (1970). Jones was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2008. In 2014, he donated his personal library of Canadian poetry to the Anne-Hébert Centre at the Service des bibliothèques et archives de l'Université de Sherbrooke.
He died on March 6, 2016, in North Hatley, Quebec.