Michael Schmidt (poet)

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Michael Schmidt, FRSL, OBE is a poet, scholar, translator, teacher and editor of Poetry Nation Review. He was born in Mexico on March 2, 1947. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

He is currently a Professor of Poetry and Convener of the Creative Writing course at the University of Glasgow, and is a founder and director of Carcanet Press. In 1999 Schmidt established the Oxford Poets imprint of Carcanet Press when the company acquired from Oxford University Press its distinguished poetry list.

[edit] Selected Bibliography

  • Selected Poems, 1972-1997 (1997)
  • Lives of the Poets (1998)
  • 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)

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