sentences:  He wrote about this world in novels and short stories, including "Times Like These" (1936) which explores the life of a working-class family during the 1926 miners' strike.The mining valleys produced a significant working-class poet in Idris Davies (1905–53), who worked as a coal miner before qualifying as a teacher.He initially wrote in Welsh "but rebellion against chapel religion", along with the "inspirational influence of English" poets, led him to write in English.