John Davy Hayward

John Davy Hayward

Early life

Hayward was educated at

Career

From 1927, Hayward lived in London, working as an editor, critic, anthologist and bibliographer. He edited many of Jonathan Swift's works.

In 1929, he edited John Donne, Dean of St Paul's: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose for the Nonesuch Press.

For eleven years, from 1946 to 1957, he shared a house with his close friend the poet

He was editor of The Book Collector from 1952 to 1965.^[1]

Since the mid-1920s Hayward had suffered from muscular dystrophy, and he died in 1965, a few months after Eliot. He bequeathed his entire collection of the literary manuscripts of T.S. Eliot to King's College, Cambridge.

Bibliography

• Collected Works of the Earl of Rochester, ed. John Davy Hayward (1925)
• John Donne, Dean of St Paul's: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. John Hayward (Nonesuch Press, 1929)
• The Letters of Saint Evremond, Charles Marguetel de Saint Denis, Seigneur de Saint Evremond, ed. John Hayward (George Routledge & Sons, London, 1930)
• "Charles II", Great Lives Series (Duckworth, London, 1933)
• Gulliver's Travels & Selected Writings in Prose & Verse by
  Dean Swift
  , ed. John Hayward (Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, 1944)
• Seventeenth Century Poetry - An Anthology Chosen by John Hayward (Chatto & Windus, 1948)
• Since 1939 - Drama, the Novel, Poetry, Prose Literature by Robert Speaight, John Hayward, Henry Reed and Stephen Spender (1949)
• Selected Prose by T. S. Eliot, ed. John Hayward (Penguin Books, London, 1953)
• The Penguin Book of English Verse, ed. John Hayward (Penguin Books, London, 1956)
• Poems Written in Early Youth by T. S. Eliot, ed. John Hayward (private printing of 12 copies, 1950, published by
  Faber and Faber
  , 1967)
• Poetry Book Society Christmas 1966 supplement, ed. Eric W. W. White, with an introduction in memory of John Hayward

Further reading

• Obituary of Hayward in King's College Annual Report, Cambridge, 1965, pages 30–33.
• John Hayward, "Some Memories," The Book Collector 14 4 (Winter 1965): 443-486.

References

Sources

• Janus: the Papers of John Davy Hayward
• The Harvard Advocate Poems of T.S. Eliot
• Webster's Dictionary: T.S. Eliot