After Cambridge, Michael Edwards taught at the universities of Warwick and Essex, before being elected Professor of Literary Creation in English at the prestigious Collège de France, Paris. Early volumes of poetry and critical works appeared in England; he then turned to French, for further collections of poetry and numerous works on European literature, painting and music, on philosophy, language, and the Bible. The first Briton admitted to the Académie française, he has an Honorary Doctorate from the University ofCambridge, where he is also Fellow of Christ’s College. He has been awarded the OBE and a Knighthood in Britain, and the Légion d’honneur in France.
