Michael Schmidt (poet)

Michael Schmidt OBE[1] FRSL[2] (born 2 March 1947)[3] is a Mexican-British poet, author, scholar and publisher.

Biography

Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Schmidt studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford University. He was Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University until 2014, and from 2012 to 2015 he was Writer in Residence at St. John's College, Cambridge. He is founder (1969) and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press and a founder (1973) and general editor of PN Review. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he received an OBE in 2006 for services to poetry.[4] His literary career has been described as having "a strong sense of internationalism and cultural ‘connectedness’".[5] Schmidt refers to himself in his book Lives of the Poets as "an Anglophone Mexican publisher".[5]

Schmidt's 2014 book The Novel: A Biography is a loosely chronological history of the development of the novel.[6] The book aims to explore the relationships between great novelists, including views by other novelists while avoiding literary critics who were not also writers.[7]

Selected bibliography

Poetry

Fiction

Criticism

Anthologies

References

  1. "Poetry Professor offers Independent thinking". University of Glasgow. 2008-03-08. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
  2. "Current RSL Fellows". rsliterature.org. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
  3. Life/Letters, Michael Schmidt website.
  4. Michael Schmidt, The Resurrection of the Body, Smith/Doorstop Books, 2007.
  5. 1 2 Contemporary Writers
  6. Deresiewicz, William (June 2014). "How the Novel Made the Modern World". The Atlantic. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  7. Eaglestone, Robert (31 July 2014). "The Novel: A Biography, by Michael Schmidt". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 5 March 2016.

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