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Insignia of a Knight Bachelor
Sir Michael Edwards ,
OBE (born 29 April 1938) is an
Anglo-
French
poet and
academic .
Life
Born in
Barnes ,
SW London ,
[1] Edwards was educated at
Kingston Grammar School
[1] and
Christ's College, Cambridge , where he read French and Spanish. He wrote his
doctoral thesis on
Jean Racine , completing it in
Paris . He was the longtime professor of English and Comparative Literature at the
University of Warwick until 2002, when he was elected to a
professorial chair for the Study of Literary Creation in the English Language at the
Collège de France .
Edwards was elected to one of the 40 seats in the
Académie Française on 21 February 2013, becoming the first English person to be so honoured.
[2]
[3] He had been nominated previously in 2008,
[4] when he received the second highest number of votes in the fourth and final round of voting (eight votes, behind
Michel Schneider who received 10) but since no candidate secured a majority the seat then remained vacant.
[5]
[6]
Honours
Knighted in the
2014 New Year Honours for "services to British–French cultural relations",
[7]
[8] Sir Michael has received the following honours:
Bibliography
La tragédie racinienne , La pensée universelle, 1972
To Kindle the Starling , Aquila, 1972
Eliot/Language , Aquila, 1975
Where, Breakish , Aquila, 1975
The Ballad of Mobb Conroy , Portree, Aquila, 1977
Towards a Christian Poetics , London, Macmillan, 1984
The Magic, Unquiet Body , Portree, Aquila, 1985
Poetry and Possibility , London, Macmillan, 1988
Of Making Many Books , London, Macmillan, 1990
Raymond Mason , London and New York, Thames & Hudson; Paris, Cercle d'Art, 1994
Éloge de l'attente ,
Belin , 1996
De Poetica Christiana , Hermeuneutikai Kutatokozpont,
Budapest , 1997
Beckett ou le don des langues , Espaces 34, 1998
Leçons de poésie ,
PUF , 2001
Avec Yves Bonnefoy, de la poésie ,(article) Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2001
Sur un vers d'Hamlet , Inaugural Speech at European Chair, Paris, Collège de France, 2001
Ombres de lune : réflexions sur la création littéraire , Espaces 34, 2001
Un monde même et autre ,
Desclée de Brouwer , janvier 2002
Rivage mobile , Arfuyen, 2003
Terre de poésie , Espaces 34, 2003
Shakespeare et la comédie de l'émerveillement ,
Desclée de Brouwer , 2003
Étude de la création littéraire en langue anglaise , "Inaugural Speeches at Collège de France", Paris, Collège de France/Fayard, 2004
Racine et Shakespeare ,
PUF , 2004
Shakespeare et l'œuvre de la tragédie ,
Belin , 2005
Le Génie de la poésie anglaise , Le Livre de poche, 2006
Co-editor, co-translator, Edgar Allan Poe, Histoires, Essais, Poèmes , Paris, Le Livre de Poche, "La Pochothèque", 2006
De l'émerveillement ,
Fayard , 2008
À la racine du feu/At the Root of Fire , selection of poems, bilingual edition, Caractères, coll. Planètes, 2009
Shakespeare : Le poète au théâtre , Fayard, 2009
L'Étrangèreté , audioCD, Paris, Gallimard, "à voix haute", 2010
Trilogie (piécette). Théâtre et poésie , Paris, TNP/Cheyne Éditeur, 2010
Le bonheur d'être ici , Fayard, février 2011
Le rire de Molière ,
De Fallois , octobre 2012
Paris aubaine , Éditions de Corlevour, novembre 2012
Reception Speech at Académie française , Paris, De Fallois, 2015
Bible et poésie , Paris, De Fallois, 2016 ; 2nd edition, Paris,PUF, 2023
L'Infiniment proche , Clichy, Éditions de Corlevour, 2016
Dialogues singuliers sur la langue française , Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2016
Molière et Shakespeare , Paris, Anne Rideau Editions, 2016
At the Brasserie Lipp , Manchester, Carcanet, 2019
Pour un christianisme intempestif , Paris, De Fallois, 2020
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