Christopher Middleton

Christopher Middleton (1926–2015), born in Cornwall, England, was a poet and translator, especially of German literature. He studied at Merton College, Oxford and held academic positions at the University of Zürich and King’s College London before becoming Professor of Germanic Languages at the University of Texas, Austin. He translated Robert Walser, Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Goethe, Gert Hofmann, receiving the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translation. His Collected Poems appeared in 2008 from Carcanet.