John Jones (academic)

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 University's 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).

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