John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs
(1918-2006), PoetSitter in 10 portraits
Educated at Oxford, Heath-Stubbs's first poems appeared in Eight Oxford Poets (1941). Much of his poetry is inspired by classical sources, and his principal works include Wounded Thammuz (1942), the epic Artorius (1972), Naming the Beasts (1982) and a study of Victorian romantic poetry The Darkling Plain (1950). He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1973.
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bernard saint
11 October 2017, 10:37
It is Heath-Stubbs' Centenary in 2018. His friends hope you may display all portraits and photographs then, particularly in September when celebrations are planned.