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Informationen zum Autor 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 ). 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 ). Klappentext What links their diverse voices is a common language: each poem, in its own way, adds to the resources of the medium and makes it new.The poems in this book are allowed to slip free of their moorings in the biography and history of the last century to create new spaces and times. Zusammenfassung What links their diverse voices is a common language: each poem, in its own way, adds to the resources of the medium and makes it new. The poems in this book are allowed to slip free of their moorings in the biography and history of the last century to create new spaces and times.
