Poems 2006-2009
Published on 1. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
182 pages
978-1-84861-127-6 (ISBN)
Description
Christopher Middleton's new collection consists-as its page-count suggests-of three separate volumes under one set of covers, and marks his first publication since the appearance in 2008 of his magnificent Collected Poems (Carcanet Press)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
276 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-127-6 (9781848611276)
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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 and many contemporaries, receiving several awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Schegel-Tieck Translation Prize. His most recent publications are: Depictions of Blaff (prose), Collected Poems, Crypto-Topographia (prose), The Word Pavilion and Selected Poems, Jackdaw Jiving: Selected Essays on Poetry and Translation, Faint Harps and Silver Voices: Selected Translations.