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Michael Schmidt


Born
in Mexico
March 02, 1947

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Michael Schmidt is a literary historian, poet, novelist, translator, and anthologist as well as an editor and publisher. His books include The Novel: A Biography and The First Poets. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he received an OBE in 2006 for services to poetry and higher education. He lives in Manchester, England.

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Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem

3.95 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions
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The Novel: A Biography

4.19 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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The Great Modern Poets: An ...

4.12 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions
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Lives of the Poets

4.16 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 1998 — 18 editions
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The Harvill Book of Twentie...

4.17 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions
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The First Poets: Lives of t...

3.39 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions
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The Colonist

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions
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Green Island

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions
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An Introduction to 50 Moder...

3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions
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Eleven British Poets

4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions
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“To become a 'good reader' one must give oneself over to a regime of concentrated pleasure. One does not set out to read a book a day (there is no necessary pleasure in that) but may spend two or three years on one book [. . .], read only portions of another, devour a third at a single sitting.”
Michael Schmidt, The Novel: A Biography

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