Grevel Lindop

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Grevel Lindop
Born
Grevel Charles Garrett Lindop

(1948-10-06) 6 October 1948 (age 77)
Liverpool, England
Alma mater Liverpool College;
Wadham College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Poet, academic and literary critic

Grevel Charles Garrett Lindop (born 6 October 1948) [1] is an English poet, academic and literary critic.

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Life

Lindop was born in Liverpool, England, to solicitor John Neale Lindop, LL.M. [2] and Winifred (née Garrett), [3] [4] and educated at Liverpool College, then Wadham College, Oxford, where he read English, taking an M.A. (B.A. 1970) [5] and Bachelor of Letters. [6] After two years of postgraduate research at Wadham and Wolfson College, Oxford, he moved to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, finishing his Ph.D. at the Victoria University of Manchester and becoming a lecturer there in 1971. He became a senior lecturer in 1984, reader in English Literature in 1993, and Professor of Romantic and Early Victorian Studies from 1996 to 2001. [7]

Lindop began writing poetry when at Oxford, working with Michael Schmidt, a fellow undergraduate, to co-edit Carcanet (the magazine, only later a publishing house).

Lindop is a frequent contributor to The Times Literary Supplement , reviewing poetry, biography, fiction, exhibitions and theatre. He also writes essays and reviews for a range of magazines including The London Magazine , Stand, P..N. Review , Poetry London and Temenos Academy Review . As a director of the Temenos Academy from 2000 to 2003, Lindop held the post of editor at Temenos Academy Review. He is also a fellow of the Wordsworth Trust. [8] [9]

He and his wife, Amanda Therese Marian (née Cox), live at Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. They have a son and two daughters. [10]

Publications

When Carcanet Press began publishing pamphlets Lindop's Against the Sea was among the earliest ones published. [11]

His first full-length collection of poems, Fools' Paradise, was published in 1977. Five other collections have been published since: Tourists (1987), A Prismatic Toy (1991), Selected Poems (2000). Lindop's most recent collection Playing With Fire, was published by Carcanet Press in 2006. [12]

Lindop wrote a biography of Thomas De Quincey which was published in 1981 as The Opium-Eater: a Life of Thomas De Quincey. He also edited De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings for the Oxford World's Classics series in 1985, and was General Editor of The Works of Thomas De Quincey, a 21-volume complete edition of his writings, produced by a team of eleven editors and published in 2000–03.

Sigma Press published Lindop's A Literary Guide to the Lake District in 1993 (third edition, 2015: ISBN   978-1910758120). The guide to the area's literary connections won the Lakeland Book of the Year award in 1994.

In 2008, André Deutsch published Travels on the Dance Floor ( ISBN   0233002367) (third edition 2010), Lindop's account of his six-week journey to Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Miami in search of the roots of salsa dancing.

Oxford University Press published Charles Williams: The Third Inkling in 2015 ( ISBN   978-0199284153).

References

  1. ↑ International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 (12th ed.), ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, p. 197
  2. ↑ The Law List, 1974, Stevens & Sons, 1974, p. 980
  3. ↑ Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Authors, Cynthia R. Fadool, Gale Research Co., 1976, p. 333.
  4. ↑ "Papers of Grevel Lindop". University of Manchester Library Archive Collection. John Rylands Library, Deansgate. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  5. ↑ Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Authors, Cynthia R. Fadool, Gale Research Co., 1976, p. 333
  6. ↑ International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 (12th ed.), ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, p. 197
  7. ↑ International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 (12th ed.), ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, p. 197
  8. ↑ International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 (12th ed.), ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, p. 197
  9. ↑ "Grevel Charles Garrett LINDOP personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK".
  10. ↑ International Who's Who of Authors and Writers, 2008 (23rd ed.), Europa Publications, p. 443
  11. ↑ Carcanet Press
  12. ↑ Carcanet Press – Playing with Fire
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