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Heath-Stubbs, John (Francis Alexander)

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Heath-Stubbs, John (Francis Alexander) (1918– ), poet and critic, educated at Worcester College for the Blind and at The Queen's College, Oxford. He describes himself as a traditionalist in literature. His inspiration comes chiefly from ancient Greece, Rome, Alexandria, classical myth, Christian legend, and works of art and scholarship. But he is also a poet of contemporary urban society, and in A Charm Against the Toothache (1954) the megalopolis is modern London. His volumes of poetry include Wounded Thammuz (1942), Beauty and the Beast (1943), The Divided Ways (1946), The Swarming of the Bees (1950), The Blue-Fly in his Head (1962), Artorius (an epic poem on Arthurian legend, 1972), Naming the Beasts (1982), Collected Poems 1943–1987 (1988), and Selected Poems (1990). Among his critical works are The Darkling Plain (1950, a study of Victorian romantic poetry) and Charles Williams (1955, a monograph). He has also produced translations of Hāfiz and Leopardi. Hindsights (1993) is an autobiography.

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