Grevel Charles Garrett Lindop (born 6 October 1948)[1] is an English poet, academic and literary critic.
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 edited De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings for the Oxford World's Classics series in 1985, and was General Editor of The Works of Thomas De Quincey, a 21-volume complete edition of his writings, produced by a team of eleven editors and published in 2000–03.