Henry John Franklin Jones known as John Jones (6 May 1924 – 28 February 2016[1]) was an English academic,[2] a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Oxford University's 38th Professor of Poetry (1978–1983).[1] Jones wrote books on literary topics including Greek tragedy, Wordsworth, Shakespeare and a novel, The Same God (1972).
The Same God is described as "idiosyncratic" by literary historian and critic Frank Kermode (1920–2010).[3]
Works
edit- 1954: The Egotistical Sublime: A History of Wordsworth's Imagination
- 1962: On Aristotle and Greek Tragedy
- 1962: Heathcote William Garrod 1878-1960
- 1963: H. W. Garrod's The Study of Good Letters (as editor)
- 1969: John Keats's Dream of Truth
- 1972: The Same God (novel)
- 1983: Dostoevsky
- 1995: Shakespeare at Work
- 1999: Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
References
edit- ^ a b "John Jones, Oxford don - obituary". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ^ Merton College; Robert Graham; Cochrane Levens (1964). Merton College register, 1900-1964: with notices of some older surviving members. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
- ^ Kermode, Frank, "Improving the Plays" (review of Jones' Shakespeare at Work), London Review of Books 18(5), 7 March 1996, 6-7.
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