English poet and autodidact; the son of a gardener, he sent poems to Robert Southey in 1827, leading to the publication of Attempts in Verse by John Jones, an old Servant (1831).

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY John Jones:

Attempts in Verse, by John Jones, an Old Servant: with some Account of the Writer, written by himself: and an Introductory Essay on the Lives and Works of our Uneducated Poets.