Selected Writings

by Christopher Middleton

This generous compendium includes Christopher Middleton's work published between 1962 and 1986 and two later essays. The poems and prose explore twilit zones between things and nothing, bodies in love ands conflict, areas of perception, and reflection and imagination.

Paperback

Published November 9, 1989

About the author

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.