Grevel Lindop | |
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| 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 Englishpoet,academic andliterary critic.
Lindop was born inLiverpool, England, to solicitor John Neale Lindop,LL.M.[2] and Winifred (née Garrett),[3][4] and educated atLiverpool College, thenWadham College, Oxford, where he read English, taking anM.A. (B.A. 1970)[5] andBachelor of Letters.[6] After two years of postgraduate research at Wadham andWolfson College, Oxford, he moved toChorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, finishing his Ph.D. at theVictoria 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 withMichael Schmidt, a fellow undergraduate, to co-editCarcanet (the magazine, only later a publishing house).
Lindop is a frequent contributor toThe Times Literary Supplement, reviewing poetry, biography, fiction, exhibitions and theatre. He also writes essays and reviews for a range of magazines includingThe London Magazine,Stand,P..N. Review,Poetry London andTemenos Academy Review. As a director of theTemenos Academy from 2000 to 2003, Lindop held the post ofeditor atTemenos Academy Review. He is also a fellow of theWordsworth 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]
WhenCarcanet Press began publishing pamphlets Lindop'sAgainst 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 collectionPlaying With Fire, was published by Carcanet Press in 2006.[12]
Lindop wrote a biography ofThomas De Quincey which was published in 1981 asThe Opium-Eater: a Life of Thomas De Quincey. He also edited De Quincey'sConfessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings for theOxford World's Classics series in 1985, and was General Editor ofThe 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'sA Literary Guide to the Lake District in 1993 (third edition, 2015:ISBN 978-1910758120). The guide to the area's literary connections won theLakeland Book of the Year award in 1994.
In 2008, André Deutsch publishedTravels 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 ofsalsa dancing.
Oxford University Press published Charles Williams: The Third Inkling in 2015 (ISBN 978-0199284153).
