Jon Stallworthy (1935–2014)
Autore di A Book of Love Poetry
Sull'Autore
Jon Stallworthy was born on January 18, 1935 in London, England. He served as second lieutenant in the Nigeria Regiment of the West African Frontier Force in the mid-1950s. After completing his national service, he studied English literature at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he won the mostra altro Newdigate Prize for his poem The Earthly Paradise in 1958. His first collection of poetry, The Astronomy of Love, was published in 1961. His other collections of poetry include Root and Branch, Hand in Hand, A Familiar Tree, The Anzac Sonata, The Guest from the Future, Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems, Body Language, and War Poet. He received the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2010 in recognition of his sustained body of work as a poet. He also wrote an autobiography entitled Singing School: The Making of a Poet. He wrote biographies about several poets including Wilfred Owen, Boris Pasternak, Alexander Blok, Herbert Read, and Geoffrey Dearmer. His biography of Louis MacNeice won the Southern Arts Literature Prize. He edited several collections of poetry including The Penguin Book of Love Poetry, The Oxford Book of War Poetry, and Complete Poems and Fragments. He also taught English literature at Cornell University and Wolfson College, Oxford University. He died on November 19, 2014 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Library of Congress
Opere di Jon Stallworthy
First Lines: Poems Written in Youth from Herbert to Heaney (Fyfield Books) (1987) — A cura di — 13 copie
The Norton anthology of poetry 2 copie
Opere correlate
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 917 copie
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th Edition, Volume F (2012) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 158 copie
Three poets of the First World War : Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen (2011) — A cura di — 29 copie
Selected Poems — A cura di — 5 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Stallworthy, Jonathan Howie
- Data di nascita
- 1935-01-18
- Data di morte
- 2014-11-19
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Kew, London, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Old Marston, Oxfordshire, UK
- Istruzione
- Dragon School
Rugby School
University of Oxford (Magdalen College) - Attività lavorative
- poet
literary critic
professor emeritus
editor - Relazioni
- Stallworthy, John (great-grandfather)
- Organizzazioni
- University of Oxford
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- E. M. Forster Award (1976)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Fellow, British Academy
Utenti
Recensioni
The Oxford Book of War Poetry di Jon Stallworthy
A great collection which includes one of my all-time favorites; Rudyard Kipling's "Tommy".
Meh. I'm sure this says something about me, but the most interesting poems in here were in the "Aberrations" section.
Good survey of the main poets of World War I, including the most famous but also some who are less well known. Written firmly from a pacifist perspective, and therefore shows some bias against those poets who saw the war in a better light than writers whose poetry is best known today (eg Julian Grenfell, whose beautiful paeon of praise to fighting, 'Into Battle' is described as 'rather horrifying' and loftily seen as the product of a culture of the past, as if that was not true of all the poets.
1459 Wilfred Owen, by Jon Stallworthy (read 4 Aug 1977) Wilfred Owen was born March 18, 1894, and was shot Nov 4, 1918. I was moved by the stark ending of the biography:
"He was at the water's edge, giving a hand with some duckboards, when he was hit and killed.
"By midday the remnants of the 2nd Manchesters were on the other side of the Canal, having crossed south of Ors by means of a floating bridge supported on kerosene tins. And seven days later, as the guns fell silent on the Western Front, the survivors piled their rifles, took off their helmets, and went to sleep; the living like the dead.
"In Shrewsbury, the Armistice bells were ringing when the Owens' front-door bell sounded its small chime, heralding the telegram that Tom and Susan had dreaded for two years."… (altro)
"He was at the water's edge, giving a hand with some duckboards, when he was hit and killed.
"By midday the remnants of the 2nd Manchesters were on the other side of the Canal, having crossed south of Ors by means of a floating bridge supported on kerosene tins. And seven days later, as the guns fell silent on the Western Front, the survivors piled their rifles, took off their helmets, and went to sleep; the living like the dead.
"In Shrewsbury, the Armistice bells were ringing when the Owens' front-door bell sounded its small chime, heralding the telegram that Tom and Susan had dreaded for two years."… (altro)
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
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- Recensioni
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- ISBN
- 71