Grevel Charles Garrett Lindop (born 6 October 1948) is an English

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and

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Life

Lindop was born in

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to solicitor John Neale Lindop, LL.M. and Winifred (née Garrett), and educated at

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, then

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, where he read English, taking an M.A. (B.A. 1970) and

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. After two years of postgraduate research at Wadham and

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, he moved to

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, Manchester, finishing his Ph.D. at the

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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. 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 ''

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'', reviewing poetry, biography, fiction, exhibitions and theatre. He also writes essays and reviews for a range of magazines including ''

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'', ''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

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at ''Temenos Academy Review''. He is also a fellow of the Wordsworth Trust. He and his wife, Amanda Therese Marian (née Cox), live at Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. They have a son and two daughters.

Publications

When

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began publishing pamphlets Lindop's ''Against the Sea'' was among the earliest ones published. 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.Carcanet Press – Playing with Fire
/ref> 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: ). 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'' () (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 ().

References

External links

An article reviewing Lindop's poetry in the ''Reader Online''

Grevel Lindop Papers
at the

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