Background
Edwards, Michael was born on April 29, 1938 in Barnes, Surrey, England. Son of Frank Ernest and Irene Louise (Dalliston) Edwards.
literary critic professor writer
Edwards, Michael was born on April 29, 1938 in Barnes, Surrey, England. Son of Frank Ernest and Irene Louise (Dalliston) Edwards.
Bachelor, University Cambridge, England, 1960. Master of Arts, University Cambridge, England, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cambridge, England, 1965.
He wrote his doctorate 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 chair in the Study of Literary Creation in the English Language at the Collège de France. Edwards was elected to one of the 40 seats of the Académie française on 21 February 2013, becoming the first English person to be so honoured.
He had been nominated previously in 2008.
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 no candidate secured a majority so the seat remained vacant on that occasion. Edwards was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to British–French cultural relations.
Louisiana tragédie racinienne, Louisiana pensée universelle, 1972
To Kindle the Starling, Aquila, 1972
Eliot/Language, Aquila, 1975
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
De la poésie, avec Yves Bonnefoy, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 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
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
De l"émerveillement, Fayard, 2008
À la racine du feu, Caractères, college Planètes, 2009
Shakespeare: Le poète au théâtre, Fayard, 2009
Le bonheur d"être ici, Fayard, février 2011
Le rire de Molière, De Fallois, octobre 2012
Paris aubaine, Éditions de Corlevour, novembre 2012.
Member Cambridge Union.
Married Danielle Bourdin, July 7, 1964. Children: Paul, Catherine.