Grevel Lindop
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6 October 1948
Wadham College, Oxford
Grevel Lindop | |
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| Born | Grevel Charles Garrett Lindop 6 October 1948 Liverpool, England |
| Alma mater | Liverpool College; Wadham College, Oxford |
| Occupations | Poet, academic and literary critic |
Grevel Charles Garrett Lindop (born 6 October 1948)[1] is an English poet, academic and literary critic.
Lindop was born in Liverpool, England, to solicitor John Neale Lindop, LL.M.[2] and Winifred (née Garrett),[3][4] and educated at Liverpool College, then Wadham College, Oxford, where he read English, taking an M.A. (B.A. 1970)[5] and Bachelor of Letters.[6] After two years of postgraduate research at Wadham and Wolfson College, Oxford, he moved to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, finishing his Ph.D. at the Victoria 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 with Michael Schmidt, a fellow undergraduate, to co-edit Carcanet (the magazine, only later a publishing house).
Lindop is a frequent contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, reviewing poetry, biography, fiction, exhibitions and theatre. He also writes essays and reviews for a range of magazines including The London Magazine, 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 editor at Temenos Academy Review. He is also a fellow of the Wordsworth 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]
