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)
  • Torse 3 (1962)
  • Nonsequences (1965),
  • Our Flowers & Nice Bones (1969)
  • 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
  • Faint Harps and Silver Voices: Selected Translations (2000)
  • The Word Pavilion and Selected Poems (2001)
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