John Heath-Stubbs

John Heath- Stubbs ( born July 9, 1918 in London, when John Francis Alexander Heath- Stubbs, † December 26, 2006 ) was a British poet and translator. He is known especially for his King - Arthur - piece Artorius of 1972.

Life

John Heath- Stubbs was born in London. He later attended Queen's College in Oxford. In 1941, he wrote, along with Sidney Keyes and Michael Meyer, Eight Oxford Poets. He also worked on the book 1942 Oxford Poetry. In the 1950s, he lived for a time in Zennor, Cornwall. In 1953 Heath- Stubbs his anthology Images of Tomorrow. In the 1960s his eyesight began to subside; Since 1978 he was completely blind. He was awarded the British Order of Knights Order of the British Empire and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. The Chilean director Carlos Klein turned the 1996 documentary Ibycus: A Poem by John Heath- Stubbs.

Works

• Writers ( London)
• Briton
• Author
• Officer of the Order of the British Empire
• Born in 1918
• Died in 2006
• Man