Jon Stallworthy has attained considerable recognition for his poetry. His work published after 1969, when compared with most of the poems in his first two collections (written between 1956 and 1963), demonstrates a steady development in his mastery of his art, as well as a broadening of theme and a greater willingness to communicate personal feeling. In addition to his poetry, Stallworthy's achievements as editor, translator, critic, scholar, and teacher are significant and have contributed to his development as a poet. His scholarly interests lie mainly in the investigation of the development of creative processes. Most noteworthy are his studies of W. B. Yeats, Between the Lines: Yeats's Poetry in the Making (1963) and Vision and Revision in Yeats's Last Poems (1969), his biography, Wilfred Owen (1974), and his edition of The Complete Poems and Fragments of Wilfred Owen (1983). With Jerzy Peterkiewicz and Burns Singer he translated poetry from the Polish language (Five Centuries...