John Heath-Stubbs
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John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs (born 9 July 1918) is an English poet and translator, known for his verse influenced by classical myths, and the long Arthurian poem Artorius (1972). Although afflicted by blindness from the 1960s, and completely without sight from 1978, he has continued to write.
He was born in London, and educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He coedited Eight Oxford Poets in 1941, with Sidney Keyes and Michael Meyer, and helped edit Oxford Poetry in 1942-43. He lived for a time in the 1950s at Zennor in Cornwall.
He was a representative figure of British poetry in the early 1950s, and edited the poetry anthology Images of Tomorrow (1953), very much in the aftermath of the 'New Romanticism'.
He has been awarded an OBE, and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
A documentary film Ibycus: A Poem by John Heath-Stubbs was made by the Chilean director Carlos Klein in 1997.
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[edit] Poets in Images of Tomorrow
Dannie Abse – Drummond Allison – Eurasia Anderson - William Bell – Thomas Blackburn – Maurice Carpenter - Alex Comfort – Yorke Crompton – N. K. Cruikshank – Keith Douglas – George Every – John Fairfax – G. S. Fraser – John Gibbs – W. S. Graham - F. Pratt Green – J. C. Hall – Michael Hamburger – John Heath-Stubbs – Glyn Jones – Sidney Keyes – Francis King – James Kirkup – Norman Nicholson – I. R. Orton – Michael Paffard – Kathleen Raine – Anne Ridler – Walter Roberts – W. R. Rodgers – Joseph Rykwert – John Smith – Muriel Spark – Derek Stanford – J. Ormond Thomas – W. Price Turner – John Wain – John Waller – Vernon Watkins – Gordon Wharton - Margaret Willy – David Wright
[edit] The Forsaken Garden: An Anthology of Poetry 1824-1909 (1950)
Edited by Heath-Stubbs and David Wright: Poets included were:
William Harrison Ainsworth - Matthew Arnold - Richard Harris Barham - William Barnes - Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Bramwell Brontë - Charlotte Brontë - Emily Brontë - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Robert Browning - Thomas Edward Brown - Lord Byron - Lewis Carroll - John Clare - Ernée Clark - Arthur Hugh Clough - Hartley Coleridge - William Johnson Cory - George Darley - John Davidson - Lord de Tabley - Aubrey de Vere - Benjamin Disraeli - Richard Watson Dixon - Sydney Dobell - Digby Mackworth Dolben - Ernest Dowson - Aglen Dowty - Ebenezer Elliot - Sebastian Evans - Frederick William Faber - Jack Fireblood - John Christopher Fitzachary - Edward Fitzgerald - William Schwenk Gilbert - David Gray - Benjamin Hardacre - Robert Stephen Hawker - Reginald Heber - William Ernest Henley - Thomas Hood - Gerard Manley Hopkins - Richard Hengist Horne - G. W. Hunt - James Hurnard - Ebenezer Jones - Edward Lear - Eugene Lee-Hamilton - Arthur Lloyd - Frederick Locker-Lampson - E. Lysaght - George MacDonald - William MacGillivray - Francis Mahony - James Clarence Mangan - Richard Mant - George Meredith - William Morris - John Henry Newman - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy - Samuel Palmer - Coventry Patmore - Winthrop Mackworth Praed - Thomas Pringle - William Caldwell Roscoe - Christina Rossetti - Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Joseph Skipsey - John Sterling - Algernon Charles Swinburne - John Addington Symonds - Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Frederick Tennyson - Charles Tennyson-Turner - James Thomson ('B. V.') - Oscar Wilde - Christopher Wordsworth
[edit] Works
- The Forsaken Garden: An Anthology of Poetry 1824-1909 (1950), edited with David Wright
- New Poems (1953)
- Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse(1953), edited with David Wright
- The Watchman's Flute (1978)
- Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat (1979), translated with Peter Avery
- Selected Poems of Thomas Gray (1981), editor
- Naming the Beasts (1982)
- The Immolation of Aleph (1985)
- Cat's Parnassus (1987), Aldgate Press. ISBN 1-870841-00-X
- Collected Poems 1942-1987 (1988), Carcanet Press
- Time Pieces (1988), Hearing Eye. ISBN 1-870841-02-6
- Selected Poems (1990)
- Sweet-Apple Earth (1993)
- Hindsight : An Autobiography (1994)
- Galileo's Salad (1996)
- The literary essays of John Heath-Stubbs (1998), edited by A.T. Tolley
- The Sound of Light (1999)
- The Poems of Sulpicia (2000), translator
- The Return of the Cranes (2002)
