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Jon Stallworthy, biographer of Wilfred Owen and war poetry editor, dies aged 79

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Jon Stallworthy, the biographer of Wilfred Owen and Louis MacNeice, and editor of the Oxford Book of War Poetry, has died aged 79. Stallworthy, who was seen last week on TV talking about the war poets in the BBC2 programme War of Words – Soldier-Poets of the Somme, published seven volumes of poetry, including Survivors’ Song: From Maldon to the Somme. Formerly the poetry editor of Oxford University Press, he was professor emeritus of English at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.

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