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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
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
^
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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