Kelly Grovier

Kelly Grovier

Kelly Grovier is an American poet, historian, and art critic.

Grovier was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received the school's Outstanding Senior of the Year Award upon graduation, and at Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He received his doctorate from Oxford in 2005 after writing a thesis on the eighteenth-century adventurer and philosopher, John "Walking" Stewart (1747–1822). He is a regular contributor on art and literature to the Times Literary Supplement and co-founder of the scholarly journal European Romantic Review.

Grovier is the author of three collections of poetry, A lens in the palm (2008), The Sleepwalker at Sea (2011), and The Lantern Cage (2014), all published by Carcanet Press. On 19 September 2008, Grovier recorded a reading of his poems for the historic online Poetry Archive. His poems frequently appear in literary journals, including Poetry Review,P. N. Review, Poetry London, New Welsh Review, Planet, Quadrant, and Stand, and have been anthologized in the Forward Books of Poetry, as well as The Best British Poetry, edited by Roddy Lumsden. Reviewers of his work have variously described him as "a poet of both truth and beauty" (The Times Literary Supplement, 30 March 2012) and "a sort of William Blake for the twenty-first century" (Planet, Autumn 2008).

In the field of literary criticism, Grovier has written widely on the British Romantic poets, especially William Wordsworth,Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats. In a review of an edition of William Godwin's early letters, published in the TLS in March 2012, Grovier explored connections in Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1797–98) with the life and pantheist thought of Walking Stewart, and proposed that Stewart was likely the real-life prototype for Coleridge's iconic wanderer.

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