Grevel Lindop
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Grevel Charles Garrett Lindop (born 6 October 1948)[1] is an English poet, academic and literary critic.
Life
Lindop was born in Liverpool 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 (3rd ed, 2015: Template:ISBN). 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 (Template:ISBN) (third edition 2010), Lindop's account of his 6-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 (Template:ISBN).
References
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- ↑ International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 (12th ed.), ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, p. 197
- ↑ The Law List, 1974, Stevens & Sons, 1974, p. 980
- ↑ Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Authors, Cynthia R. Fadool, Gale Research Co., 1976, p. 333
- ↑ University of Manchester Library Archive Collection, 'Papers of Grevel Lindop', John Rylands Library, Deansgate URL= https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/0fe95f3c-17df-3327-9f98-cbfaf016f321 Date accessed= 13 December 2018
- ↑ Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Authors, Cynthia R. Fadool, Gale Research Co., 1976, p. 333
- ↑ International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 (12th ed.), ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, p. 197
- ↑ International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 (12th ed.), ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, p. 197
- ↑ International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 (12th ed.), ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, p. 197
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- ↑ International Who's Who of Authors and Writers, 2008 (23rd ed.), Europa Publications, p. 443
- ↑ Carcanet Press
- ↑ Carcanet Press – Playing with Fire
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- People from Chorlton-cum-Hardy
- Poets from Liverpool
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- People educated at Liverpool College