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 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.
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)Kermode, Frank, "Improving the Plays" (review of Jones' Shakespeare at Work), London Review of Books 18(5), 7 March 1996, 6-7. 1983: Dostoevsky 1995: Shakespeare at Work 1999: Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
References