About John Jones
Lived 1924 – 2016 (aged 91). John Jones was a British professor, literary scholar and jurist.
Henry John Franklin Jones known as John Jones (6 May 1924 – 28 February 2016 ) was an English academic, a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Oxford Universitys 38th Professor of Poetry (1978–1983). .
Jones was married to the painter Jean Jones (née Robinson), with whom he had two children.
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
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John Jones was born on 6 May 1924 in Myanmar.
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