{{Short description|British literary critic, professor and poet}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{EngvarB|date=February 2020}} '''Jon Howie Stallworthy''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|FBA|FRSL}} (18 January 1935 – 19 November 2014)<ref>{{cite web|title=News – Professor Jon Stallworthy|url=http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/news/2014/11/professor-jon-stallworthy|date=20 November 2014|publisher=Wilfred Owen Association|access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref> was a British [[literary critic]] and poet. He was [[Professor (highest academic rank)|Professor]] of English at the [[University of Oxford]] from 1992 to 2000, and [[Professor Emeritus]] in retirement. He was also a [[Fellow]] of [[Wolfson College, Oxford]], from 1986, where he was twice acting president. From 1977 to 1986, he was the John Wendell Anderson Professor of English at [[Cornell University]].<ref>[https://blogs.cornell.edu/englishcul/2014/12/04/remembering-jon-stallworthy/ Cornell obituary]. Retrieved 21 May 2015</ref>
==Biography== Stallworthy was born in London. His parents, [[John Stallworthy (obstetrician)|Sir John Stallworthy]] and Margaret Stallworthy, were from New Zealand and moved to England in 1934. Stallworthy started writing poems when he was only seven years old. He was educated at the [[Dragon School]], [[Rugby School]] and at [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], where he won the [[Newdigate Prize]]. His works include seven volumes of poetry, and biographies of [[Wilfred Owen]] and [[Louis MacNeice]]. He edited several war-related anthologies and is particularly known for his critical work and editorial scholarship on [[Wilfred Owen]] and [[WWI]] poetry.<ref name = "Jon Stallworthy: Poetry Foundation biography">{{cite web|url= https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jon-stallworthy|title=Poetry Foundation biography for Jon Stallworthy|access-date=21 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240617064059/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jon-stallworthy|archive-date=17 June 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>
While researching the local history of New Zealand Stallworthy discovered an obscure volume entitled ''Early Northern Wairoa'' written by his great-grandfather, [[John Stallworthy]] (1854–1923), in 1916. From this book he learned that his great-great-grandfather, George Stallworthy (1809–1859), had left his birthplace of Preston Bissett in [[Buckinghamshire, England|Buckinghamshire]], England, for the [[Marquesas]] as a missionary. This discovery led in turn to him finding family-related letters in the archives of the [[London Missionary Society]]. Stallworthy's book ''A Familiar Tree'' (Oxford University Press, 1978) is a collection of poetry inspired by events depicted in these documents. ''Singing School'' is an autobiography which emphasises Stallworthy's development as a poet, and his own published poetry has been described as having “a gift few poets possess, and which all poets wish for — the ability to strike out a memorable and epigrammatic line which is at once simple and deeply disturbing.”<ref name="Jon Stallworthy: Poetry Foundation biography"></ref>
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 [[WWI]] trench poet [[Wilfred Owen]]. In 2010 he received the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award from the Wilfred Owen Association.<ref>[http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/wilfred-owen-association/wilfred-owen-poetry-award Wilfred Owen Association website]. Retrieved 22 November 2014</ref> In the course of his literary career, he became a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]] and the [[British Academy]].<ref>[https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-jon-stallworthy Wolfson College, Oxford: Professor Jon Stallworthy]. Retrieved 22 November 2014</ref>
==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 [[Wilfred Owen]]; edited by Jon Stallworthy. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1984) {{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}}<ref name="AfDY_Hachette_listing">{{cite book |title=Anthem for Doomed Youth |url=https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/jon-stallworthy/anthem-for-doomed-youth/9781472110053/ |website=Hachette UK |date=31 January 2019 |isbn=9781472110053 |access-date=20 May 2021|last1=Stallworthy |first1=Jon |publisher=Little, Brown Book }}</ref> * ''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== {{Reflist}} * 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== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20061116064834/http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry-matters/july2004/stallworthy.html "Poetry: Jon Stallworthy"], Tower Poetry, June 2004. (Retrieved 5 September 2006) *[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/jon-stallworthy-poet-and-scholar-acclaimed-for-his-own-work-and-championing-the-poets-of-the-first-9896558.html Obituary from ''The Independent''] *[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/03/jon-stallworthy Obituary from ''The Guardian''] *[http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/obits/obituaries/11643062.Acclaimed_professor_drew_his_inspiration_from_Port_Meadow/ Obituary from ''The Oxford Times'']
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