Jon Stallworthy
Jon Howie Stallworthy,
Biography
Stallworthy was born in London. His parents,
While researching the local history of New Zealand Stallworthy discovered an obscure volume entitled Early Northern Wairoa written by his great-grandfather,
Stallworthy wrote a short summary of war poetry in the introductory chapter to the Oxford Book of War Poetry (Edited by Jon Stallworthy, Oxford University Press, 1984), as well as editing several anthologies of war poetry and writing a biography of Wilfred Owen. In 2010 he received the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award from the Wilfred Owen Association.[3] In the course of his literary career, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy.[4]
Published works
- The Astronomy of Love, by Jon Stallworthy. (London: Oxford University Press, 1961)
- Out of Bounds, by Jon Stallworthy. (1963)
- Between the Lines: W. B. Yeats's Poetry in the Making, by Jon Stallworthy. (1963)
- Yeats: Last Poems, a Casebook, by Jon Stallworthy. (London: Macmillan, 1968)
- Root and Branch, by Jon Stallworthy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1969)
- Positives, by Jon Stallworthy. (1969)
- Vision and Revision in Yeats's Last Poems, by Jon Stallworthy. (1969)
- Five Centuries of Polish Poetry, 1450–1970, by Jerzy Peterkiewicz and Burns Singer; 2nd edition with new poems translated in collaboration with Jon Stallworthy. (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1970) ISBN 0-19-211298-8
- The Twelve, and Other Poems, by Alexander Blok; translated from Russian by Jon Stallworthy and Peter France. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970)
- Wilfred Owen, by Jon Stallworthy. (London: Oxford University Press, 1974) ISBN 0-19-211719-X
- Hand in Hand, by Jon Stallworthy. (1974)
- The Apple Barrel, by Jon Stallworthy. (1974)
- A Book of Love Poetry, edited by Jon Stallworthy. (1974)
- A Familiar Tree, by Jon Stallworthy; drawings by David Gentleman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978) ISBN 0-19-520050-0
- Selected Poems, by Boris Pasternak; translated from Russian by Jon Stallworthy and Peter France. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1983) ISBN 0-393-01819-9
- The Complete Poems and Fragments, by ISBN 0-393-01830-X
- The Oxford Book of War Poetry, chosen and edited by Jon Stallworthy. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1984) ISBN 0-19-214125-2
- The Anzac Sonata: new and selected poems, by Jon Stallworthy. (London: Chatto & Windus; New York: W. W. Norton, 1986) ISBN 0-393-02449-0
- Louis MacNeice, by Jon Stallworthy. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995) ISBN 0-393-03776-2
- The Guest from the Future, by Jon Stallworthy. (Carcanet Press, 1995) ISBN 1-85754-132-4
- The Norton Anthology of Poetry, edited by Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1996) ISBN 0-393-96820-0
- Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems, by Jon Stallworthy. (Carcanet Press, 1998) ISBN 1-85754-163-4
- Singing School: The Making of a Poet, by Jon Stallworthy. (John Murray, 1998) ISBN 0-7195-5715-1
- The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume 2C, The Twentieth Century, edited by Jon Stallworthy; M. H. Abrams, general editor; Stephen Greenblatt, associate editor. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000) ISBN 0-393-97570-3
- Anthem for Doomed Youth: Twelve Soldier Poets of the First World War, compiled and written by Jon Stallworthy; (London: Constable (Hachette UK), 2002, in association with the Imperial War Museum) ISBN 978-1-47211005-3[5]
- Great Poets of World War I: poetry from the great war, by Jon Stallworthy. (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2002) ISBN 0-7867-1098-5
- Body Language, by Jon Stallworthy. (Carcanet Press, 2004) ISBN 1-85754-746-2
- War Poet (Carcanet Press, 2014).
References
- ^ "News – Professor Jon Stallworthy". Wilfred Owen Association. 20 November 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- ^ Cornell obituary. Retrieved 21 May 2015
- ^ Wilfred Owen Association website. Retrieved 22 November 2014
- ^ Wolfson College, Oxford: Professor Jon Stallworthy. Retrieved 22 November 2014
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- Stallworthy, Jon. A Familiar Tree. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Book liner notes and "The Bare Bones of the Tree", p. 80.
External links
- "Poetry: Jon Stallworthy", Tower Poetry, June 2004. (Retrieved 5 September 2006)
- Obituary from The Independent
- Obituary from The Guardian
- Obituary from The Oxford Times