Grant, Michael, b 1940 (poet and academic)
Dates
- Existence: b 1940
Biography
Michael Grant (b. 1940), poet and academic, was educated at the University of Cambridge and has spent most of his career at the University of Kent at Canterbury, at first teaching English and subsequently holding the post of Senior Lecturer in Film Studies. He has written on philosophy, film and literature, including books on T. S. Eliot and David Cronenberg, and articles on poetry, aesthetics and the cinema. His volumes of poetry are 'The Fair' (1967), 'The Giraffe' (1971), 'Orders of Exchange' (1976), 'The First Dream' (2008) and 'The White Theatre' (2011).
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
CADDELL, Ric, circa 1978
Photocopy of a review article on Riley’s 'That is Today' published in the magazine 'Spindrift' in 1978 and annotated by Ric Caddell. The article was written by Michael Grant and sent to Riley by Caddell.
GRANT, Michael, 1972-1978
37 letters and occasional poems from Michael Grant to Riley. Many are undated.
Loose Notes: Transcriptions - Folder 2, circa 1963-1978
Contains typescript poems (some annotated); transcriptions from Rainer Maria Rilke, 'Selected Letters 1902-1926' translated by R. F. C. Hull, London: Macmillan and Co., 1946; and poems by Denise Levertov (from printed sources), John Dichmont, Michael Grant and Anthony Brown.
Foliated 1-95 by archivist. Folio 1 is a typescript poem ‘No More Shall Grief Of Mine’ signed by Riley and Tim Longville and dated 29 March 1978; folio 54 is dated ‘Nov.-Dec. 1963’.
Michael Grant Papers
Literary correspondence and papers of Michael Grant, chiefly consisting of letters addressed to Grant by Tim Longville, John Riley and others.
Poems to be considered, circa 1974
Contains an original file labelled ‘Poems to be considered’ holding photocopied or carbon-copied poems by Andrew Crozier, Michael Grant, Tim Longville and David Miller. Also includes a letter from Longville to Riley dated 26 September 1974.
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