Christopher Middleton

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Christopher Middleton


Born
Truro, Cornwall, The United Kingdom
Died
November 29, 2015

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Christopher Middleton was born in Truro, Cornwall, in 1926. He studied at Merton College, Oxford, and then taught at the University of Zurich, at King's College, London, and finally as Professor of Germanic Languages at the University of Texas, Austin. He has published translations of Robert Walser, Nietzsche, Holderlin, Goethe, Gert Hofmann and many others. Over the last two decades Carcanet has published six books of his poems, Intimate Chronicles (1996), one book of his experimental prose and two volumes of essays, as well as his Selected Writings and Faint Harps and Silver Voices, a collection of verse translations.

He has received various awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize.
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Andalusian Poems

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Jackdaw Jiving: Selected Es...

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Loose Cannons: Selected Pro...

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Collected Later Poems

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Selected Writings

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Woden Dog

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Torse 3: Poems 1949-1961

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Crypto-Topographia

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The Tenor on Horseback

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