John Jones (academic) explained

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 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).

The Same God is described as "idiosyncratic" by literary historian and critic Frank Kermode (1920–2010).^[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)
• 1983: Dostoevsky
• 1995: Shakespeare at Work
• 1999: Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

Notes and References

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