Christopher Middleton (poet)
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- This article is about the contemporary British poet. For men with similar names, see Christopher Middleton
Christopher Middleton (born June 10, 1926) is a British poet, translator (especially of German literature), and academic. He was born in Truro, Cornwall.
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.
[edit] 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 (1983) essays
- Selected Writings (1989)
- On a Photograph of Chekhov (1995)
- The Swallow Diver (1997)
- The Redbird Hexagon (1999)
- Faint Harps and Silver Voices: Selected Translations (2000)
- Twenty Tropes for Doctor Dark (2000)
- The Word Pavilion and Selected Poems (2001)
- The Anti-Basilisk (2005)
