Christopher Middleton (poet)

This article is about the contemporary British poet. For men with similar names, see Christopher Middleton (disambiguation).

Christopher Middleton (born June 10, 1926) is a British poet and translator, especially of German literature.

Life

He was born in Truro, Cornwall, in 1926. He studied at Merton College, Oxford. He then held academic positions at the University of Zürich and King's College London. He became Professor of Germanic Languages at the University of Texas, Austin, retiring in 1998. Middleton has published translations of Robert Walser, Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Goethe, Gert Hofmann and many others. He has received various awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize.

Works

• Poems (1944)
• Nocturne in Eden (1945)
• The Vision of a Drowned Man (1949)
• Torse 3 (1962)
• Nonsequences (1965)
• Our Flowers & Nice Bones (1969)
• The Fossil Fish (1970)
• Briefcase History (1972)
• The Lonely Suppers of W. V. Balloon (1975)
• Pataxanadu and Other Prose (1977)
• Bolshevism in Art and Other Expository Writings (1978) essays
• Carminalenia (1980)
• The Pursuit of the Kingfisher (Carcanet Press, 1983) essays
• 111 Poems (Carcanet Press, 1983)
• Serpentine (1984)
• Two Horse Wagon going by (Carcanet Press, 1986)
• Selected Writings (Carcanet Press, 1989)
• The Balcony Tree (Carcanet Press, 1992)
• On a Photograph of Chekhov (1995)
• Intimate Chronicles (Carcanet Press, 1996)
• The Swallow Diver (1997)
• Jackdaw Living (Carcanet Press, 1998)
• The Redbird Hexagon (1999)
• Faint Harps and Silver Voices: Selected Translations (Carcanet Press, 2000)
• Twenty Tropes for Doctor Dark (2000)
• The Word Pavilion and Selected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2001)
• The Anti-Basilisk (Carcanet Press, 2005)
• Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2008)

Translations

• Selected Stories by Robert Walser (Carcanet Press, 1988)
• The Spectacle at the Tower by Gert Hofman (Carcanet Press, 1988)
• Our Conquest by Gert Hofman (Carcanet Press, 1988)

External links

• Profile at Carcanet Press
• Profile at Poetry Archive