Michael Schmidt (poet)

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Michael Schmidt
Born (1947-04-28) 28 April 1947 (age 77)
Alma mater Harvard University
Wadham College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Poet, author, scholar and publisher
Known forFounder of Carcanet Press and of PN Review

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

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Early life

Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Schmidt was educated at The Hill School from 1959 to 1965 and earned an English-Speaking Union Scholarship to attend Christ's Hospital School (1965–66). He studied at Harvard University and at Wadham College, Oxford University.

Career

Schmidt was Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University until 2014, the Writer in Residence at St. John's College, Cambridge, from 2012 to 2015 and a visiting fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 2017 to 2018. 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 (elected in 1993), [2] Schmidt 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 1998 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]

In August 2015, Schmidt was one of 20 authors of Poets for Corbyn, an anthology of poems endorsing Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election. [8] [9]

Selected bibliography

Poetry

Fiction

Criticism

Anthologies

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References

  1. "Poetry Professor offers Independent thinking". University of Glasgow. 8 March 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Michael Schmidt". rsliterature.org. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  3. Life/Letters, Michael Schmidt website.
  4. Schmidt, Michael (2007). The Resurrection of the Body. Smith/Doorstop Books.
  5. 1 2 Contemporary Writers. Archived 7 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  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.
  8. Bennetts, Russell (2015). Poets for Corbyn (PDF). Pendant Publishing. ISBN   978-0-9928034-5-2.
  9. Bennetts, Russell (25 August 2015). "Yes we scan: Poets line up for Jeremy Corbyn". The Guardian . Retrieved 15 July 2017.