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Sir
Michael Edwards
Sir; Michael Edwards
	Sir Michael Edwards
Born	29 April 1938 (age 86); London, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Education	Kingston Grammar School
Alma mater	Christ's College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)	Poet; Academic
Known for	Member, Académie Française

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