John William Dominic Hibberd

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(3 November 1941 – 12 August 2012) was an

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freelance author, academic and broadcaster, best known for his

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of the poets

Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen Military Cross, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of Trench warfare, trenches and Chemi ...

and

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and his collections (edited with John Onions) of First World War poetry. He was an Honorary Fellow of the War Poets Association and contributed numerous articles to the

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. Born and brought up in Guildford, he was educated at

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and

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. He went on to teach at

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and at universities in Britain, the United States and China, before moving to Oxford and devoting himself full-time to writing. In April 2011 he was awarded a higher doctorate (Litt D) by Cambridge University in recognition of his work. Hibberd died in the early hours of 12 August 2012 at his

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home. His death came from

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complicating Corticobasal Degeneration, a rare

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which was only subsequently diagnosed at post mortem. He was 70.

Works

*''Wilfred Owen: War Poems and Others'' edited by Dominic Hibberd (London: Chatto & Windus, 1973) *''Poetry of the First World War'' edited by Dominic Hibberd (London: Macmillan, 1981) *''Owen The Poet'' by Dominic Hibberd (University of Georgia Press, 1986) *''Poetry of the Great War: An Anthology'' edited by Dominic Hibberd and John Onions (London: Macmillan, 1986) *''The First World War: Context and Commentary'' by Dominic Hibberd (London: Macmillan, 1990) *''Diary of a Dead Officer: Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West'' with new introduction by Dominic Hibberd (London: Imperial War Museum, 1991) Reissued in 2007 by MBI Pub. *''Wilfred Owen: The Last Year 1917-1918'' by Dominic Hibberd (London: Constable, 1992) *''Harold Monro: Poet of the New Age'' by Dominic Hibberd (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001) *''Wilfred Owen: A New Biography'' by Dominic Hibberd (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002) *''Strange Meetings: Poems by Harold Monro'' edited by Dominic Hibberd (Holt: Laurel Books, 2003) *''The Winter of the World: Poems of the First World War'' edited by Dominic Hibberd and John Onions (London: Constable & Robinson, 2007) *Chapter 7 in ''The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines'', Volume 1 (Oxford: OUP, 2009) * Articles and reviews for many literary and academic publications, including ''The Cambridge Review'', ''The Review of English Studies'', and ''The Times Literary Supplement''. He contributed to the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' articles on the Georgian Poets, Frederic Manning, Harold Monro, HH Munro (Saki) and Arthur Graeme West.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hibberd, Dominic 1941 births 2012 deaths English biographers Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Alumni of King's College, Cambridge People educated at Rugby School Writers from Guildford Teachers at Manchester Grammar School