Michael Schmidt (poet)

Michael Schmidt (poet)

Michael Schmidt (born in Mexico City in 1947) is a Mexican-British poet, author and scholar. He studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford. He is currently Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University, where he is convener of the Creative Writing M.Litt programme. 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.[1] His literary career has been described as having "a strong sense of internationalism and cultural ‘connectedness’".[2] Schmidt refers to himself in his book Lives of the Poets as ‘an Anglophone Mexican publisher’.[3]

Selected bibliography

  • The Colonist (novel) (1983)
  • The Dresden Gate (novel) (1988)
  • Selected Poems, 1972-1997 (1997)
  • Lives of the Poets (Phoenix, 1998) ISBN 978-0753807453
  • The Story of Poetry: From Caedmon to Caxton; From Skelton to Dryden; From Pope to Burns (three volumes) (2001–2006)
  • The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets (2004)
  • The Harvill Book of Twentieth century Poetry in English (1999, 2005) (editor)
  • The Resurrection of the Body (poems) (2007)

References

  1. ^ Michael Schmidt, "The Resurrection of the Body", Smith/Doorstop Books, 2007
  2. ^ Contemporary Writers
  3. ^ Contemporary Writers

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