Christopher Middleton was born in Truro, Cornwall, in 1926. He studied at Merton College, Oxford, before teaching at the University of Zurich, at King's College, London, and 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. Carcanet have published his poetry, prose and translations since 1975. His books include Selected Writings (1989), Faint Harps and Silver Voices: Translations (2000), The Word Pavilion (2001) and Collected Poems (2008).
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'Poems, translations, essays - Christopher Middleton's are among the most visited books on my shelves; always dependable for re-exciting the possibilities of language.' --Jennie Feldman 'The poet's ancestry, his Englishness, is relegated without denial. But the movement, whether it is generated in America, Provence, or Cappadocia, is always of encounter - of an eroticism, with the inner and outer, a profound in-touchness with the multiplicities of existence - a mark of all important poets.' ---Tom Lowenstein