'The poets which Schmidt has chosen to include in this volume are worthy to stand up and speak for the art of a century' - Rachel Campbell-Johnson, The Times
Michael Schmidt (Author, Edited by)
Michael Schmidt is a poet, critic, and translator. He edits the
leading poetry journal PN Review, is the editorial director of the
Carcanet Press and director, the Writing Programme at Manchester
Metropolitan University and a Professor of Poetry at the University
of Glasgow. He was born in Mexico in 1947, and educated at Harvard
and Oxford. His Lives of the Poets, a survey of English poetry from
the fourteenth century to the present day, 'distinguished him as
among the most vigilant of critics' (The Times).
A valuable and brave book... reliably thoughtful and properly
controversial. Furthermore, its devotion is always to poetry, not
to personality
*Andrew Motion*
Readers who delight in the sheer diversity of 20th century poetry
in English are richly catered for
*Spectator*
Michael Schmidt is eminently well-suited to take the measure of the
changes and vicissitudes that brought poetry to its current modern
character
*Independent on Sunday*
Schmidt is no despiser of popular taste for all his declared
modernism, his agenda is elastic and inclusive... I can imagine
teaching out of this rich, warm, generous collection for years,
without getting bored, limited, or enraged with its editor
*Times Educational Supplement*
It is hard to see who could have done the job better than
Schmidt
*Times Literary Supplement*
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