Henry John Franklin Jones known as John Jones (6 May 1924 â 28 February 2016) was an English academic, a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Oxford Universitys 38th Professor of Poetry (1978âÂÂ1983). Jones wrote books on literary topics including Greek tragedy, Wordsworth, Shakespeare and a novel, The Same God (1972).
The Same God is described as "idiosyncratic" by literary historian and critic Frank Kermode (1920âÂÂ2010).