Christopher Middleton



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)

Translated

 * Robert Walser, Selected Stories. Carcanet Press, 1988.
 * Gert Hofman, The Spectacle at the Tower. Carcanet Press, 1988.
 * Gert Hofman, Our Conquest. Carcanet Press, 1988.
 * Gert Hofman, The Parable of the Blind. Fromm International, 1989.