101 Letters - Couverture souple

Middleton, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1800175671 ISBN 13 : 9781800175679

Editeur : Lives and Letters, 2026

Synopsis

This selection of Middleton’s letters offers a new beginning point for readers of this dazzling, many-talented writer. The first letter here dates from 1936, the last from 2015, and this selection charts a life lived to the full as the poet reports on his work, his writing life and his continuous transatlantic engagement with the poets and critics of his generation.

Enthusiastic, discursive and slyly humorous, Christopher Middleton (1926–2015) was an electrifying correspondent. This selection of his letters spans his entire literary career, illuminating his own practice and the modernist poetic project more broadly. He is represented here as poet, translator, teacher, reader: perhaps most of all, voracious noticer. The letter was an ideal medium for an imagination like Middleton’s, open to unexpected connections and transitions, interested jackdaw-like in whatever presents itself, as these 101 examples make clear.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Christopher Middleton (1926-2015) was born in Truro, Cornwall. 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 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), Collected Poems (2008) and Collected Later Poems (2014).

John Clegg works as a bookseller in London. In 2013 he was awarded an Eric Gregory Prize. His second collection, Holy Toledo! (2016), was shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lives and Letters
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1800175671
• ISBN 13: 9781800175679
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 266
• Éditeur: Clegg John
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