John Jones (academic)

Henry John Franklin Jones known as John Jones (May 6, 1924 – February 28, 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 diverse literary topics including Greek tragedy, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, and penned a novel, The Same God (1972) that have been described as "idiosyncratic" by literary historian and prolific critic Frank Kermode (1920-2010).