John Heath-Stubbs Archive
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: John Heath-Stubbs Archive
Classmark: BC MS 20c Heath-Stubbs
Creator(s): Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)()
Date(s): 1948-2007
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 boxes; manuscript, typescript, audio and DVD recordings, and printed material.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8503
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
This collection includes manuscript and typescript drafts and poems, examples of published works, an audio recording and correspondence by John Heath-Stubbs. The majority of the poems and drafts are autographed. This collection also includes a small collection of obituaries compiled following Heath-Stubbs death, and sound and DVD recordings of Heath-Stubbs collected by Adrian Risdon.
Biography or history
John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs, the poet, was born in London in 1918 and educated at Worcester College for the Blind and The Queen's College, Oxford. He published his first poems in the wartime volume, 'Eight Oxford Poets'. He was a Gregory Fellow in Poetry at Leeds University between 1952 and 1955, then taught at foreign universities for several years before becoming a lecturer in English Literature at the College of St Mark and St John, Chelsea, from 1963 to 1973, in which year he received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He was awarded several other prizes, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1989, in which year he was also awarded the OBE. John Heath-Stubbs is also noted for his translations of Middle Eastern poets, and has written plays and literary essays as well as poetry. He died in December 2006.
Provenance
Purchased from the author and from various booksellers on several occasions between 1963 and 1993. Papers recording details of acquisitions are held with the collection.
System of arrangement
The collection is arranged into the following subfonds (sub-collections): Poetry Collections and Published Poems Other Poems and Drafts Correspondence Obituaries Heath-Stubbs Audio and Other Papers (Risdon)
Access and usage
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Access
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On our website
Profile: John Heath-Stubbs
A biography of John Heath-Stubbs a Gregory Fellowship Poet at the University of Leeds. He held the position between 1952-1955.