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). He was a passionate football fan and a supporter of Plymouth Argyle, and spent three years (1956–1959) as football correspondent for The Observer[1][3].

Jones was married to the painter Jean Jones (née Robinson), with whom he had two children.[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)[4]
  • 1983: Dostoevsky
  • 1995: Shakespeare at Work
  • 1999: Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

References

  1. ^ "John Jones, Oxford don - obituary". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  2. ^ Merton College; Robert Graham; Cochrane Levens (1964). Merton College register, 1900-1964: with notices of some older surviving members. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
  3. ^ "In Memoriam: Emeritus Fellows". Postmaster & The Merton Record. 2016.
  4. ^ Kermode, Frank, "Improving the Plays" (review of Jones' Shakespeare at Work), London Review of Books 18(5), 7 March 1996, 6-7.