Jon Stallworthy

ABOUT JON STALLWORTHY

A British poet, literary critic, and academic, he published seven volumes of poetry, including A Familiar Tree, The Astronomy of Love, and Hand in Hand. He also edited Volume 2C of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, as well as a collection of World War I-era poems.

He started writing poetry at age seven and went on to receive the Newdigate Prize while a student at Magdalen College, Oxford.

His 1998 memoir, Singing School, details his poetic development.

His parents, Margaret and John Arthur Stallworthy, were both born in New Zealand.

He published a 1963 scholarly work entitled Between the Lines: W. B. Yeats ' Poetry in the Making.