John Jones (literary scholar)
Henry John Franklin Jones (born May 6, 1924 in Burma ; † February 28, 2016 ) was an English literary scholar . From 1978 to 1983 he was Oxford Professor of Poetry .
life and work
Jones was born in 1924 in what was then British Burma, where his father worked as a doctor. His paternal grandfather was Henry Jones . John Jones went to the prestigious Blundell's School in England ; when he was eight years old, his father died. He received a scholarship to Merton College of Oxford University .
Before he started his studies, he did military service for the British Army during World War II . Jones served in East Asia, learned the Japanese language and translated Japanese radio messages for radio reconnaissance. He experienced the end of the war in Colombo on Ceylon , where he read Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in the public library .
After the war he returned to Europe, studied at Merton College primarily jurisprudence and in 1949 Don , so tutor for law. In the same year he married the painter Jean Robinson, with whom he had a son and a daughter.
He studied literature extensively and in 1954 wrote an authoritative analysis of William Wordsworth : The Egotistical Sublime: A History of Wordsworth's Imagination . In 1962 he replaced Hugo Dyson as Don for English literature and published Aristotle and Greek Tragedy . Other monographs dealt with John Keats , Fyodor Dostoyevsky and William Shakespeare .
Contrary to academic practice, Jones did not live on campus; his wife, who suffered from depression , preferred London, where she was immersed in social life. She died in 2012.
In 1978 Jones was appointed Oxford Professor of Poetry . He had a small circle of admirers and friends, but suffered from the fact that he had not had a great academic career until his appointment as Professor of Poetry and that his books were not more successful with audiences. His lectures were considered brilliant, but Jones gave them without taking notes or written preparation so they are not documented.
Jones was a passionate football fan. When he was invited to Melvyn Bragg's BBC television program Read All About It in the late 1970s , he did not present a literary work in the book program, but the biography of Everton FC player Dixie Dean .
John Jones died in February 2016.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jones, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jones, Henry John Franklin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burma |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 2016 |