John Heath-Stubbs
John Heath-Stubbs (born July 9, 1918 in London as John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs , † December 26, 2006 ibid) was a British poet and translator. He is best known for its King Arthur -Stück Artorius of the 1,972th
Life
John Heath-Stubbs was born in London. He later attended Queen's College , Oxford . In 1941 he wrote, together with Sidney Keyes and Michael Meyer, Eight Oxford Poets . He also worked on the book Oxford Poetry in 1942 . In the 1950s he lived in Zennor , Cornwall for a while . In 1953, Heath-Stubbs published his anthology Images of Tomorrow . In the 1960s his eyesight began to deteriorate; since 1978 he was completely blind. He was awarded the British Military Orders Order of the British Empire and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry awarded. The Chilean director Carlos Klein made the documentary Ibycus: A Poem by John Heath-Stubbs in 1996 .
Works
- 1941: Eight Oxford Poets (with Sidney Keyes and Michael Meyer)
- 1950: The Forsaken Garden: An Anthology of Poetry 1824–1909 (with David Wright)
- 1953: Images of Tomorrow
- 1953: New Poems
- 1972: Artorius
- 1953: Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse (with David Wright)
- 1978: The Watchman's Flute
- 1979: Omar Khayyám , The Rubaiyat (translation with Peter Avery )
- 1981: Selected Poems of Thomas Gray
- 1982: Naming the Beasts
- 1985: The Immolation of Aleph
- 1987: Cat's Parnassus
- 1988: Collected Poems 1942-1987
- 1988: Time Pieces
- 1990: Selected Poems
- 1993: Sweet-Apple Earth
- 1994: Hindsight: An Autobiography
- 1996: Galileo's Salad
- 1998: The literary essays of John Heath-Stubbs (by AT Tolley )
- 1999: The Sound of Light
- 2000: The Poems of Sulpicia (translation)
- 2002: The Return of the Cranes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heath-Stubbs, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heath-Stubbs, John Francis Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 2006 |
| Place of death | London |