Middleton, Christopher (see also other record) to Hamburger, Michael
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Middleton, Christopher (see also other record) to Hamburger, Michael
Classmark: BC MS 20c Hamburger/140
Related People: Michael Hamburger(Recipient)
Creator(s): Middleton, Christopher
Date(s): 23 Oct.1956 - 29 May 1960; 1 n.d.
Size and medium: 17 letters
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/85733
Collection group(s): Letters Database
Description
In folder together with other items, as follows:
Poems by Christopher Middleton:
(i) 50 ff. single poems (TS unless otherwise indicated): "Amiel" (holograph); "Amigos de Corazon"; "The Ancestors" (holograph); "At Porthcothan"; "Avebury: the Temple"; "Blue Room"; "The Children at Longboat Key"; "Crossing "; "The Cyclops"; "Edward Lear in February"; "Goethe After Marienbad"; "Head to Foot"; "The Hedgehog"; "Homage to Kafka" (inscribed to Michael Hamburger and signed); "Isla Mujeres" (inscribed to Michael Hamburger and signed); "January 1919" (holograph); "The King of the Chaldees"; "Lecture Notes"; "Male Torso" (signed and dated 23-28 Aug. 1958); "Milk Sonnet"; "News from Norwood"; "October"; "One Lone Mole More Gone"; "Pavlovic Variations" (inscribed to Michael Hamburger and signed); "Seven Hunters"; "Skins and Bones"; "Tamar and Amnon"; "Thinking of Holderlin"; "The Thousand Things"; "Three in the Morning" (from "The Seven Masks of Herman Moon"); "Herman Moon's Ode on Contemplating Clapham Junction" (extract from "Herman Moon's Hourbook" - 3 poems grouped together);
"The Tudor Stele at West Wittering"; "Yes, Mr Brecht"; poem beginning "You Bring the Morning Flower..."; limericks (3 ff.) (holograph)
(ii) TS: "Lubberfiend's Logbook: Poems by Christopher Middleton". Contains 1 holograph page (46 ff in all).
Translations by Christopher Middleton:
(i) A poem: Karl Krolow, "Schatten in die Luft" (written in Christopher Middleton's hand) together with translation entitled "Shadows in the Air" (holograph). 2ff in all.
(ii) A poem: Heinz Piontek, "Merlinische Wanderschaft" (written in Christopher Middleton's hand) together with translation entitled "A Journey for Merlin" (holograph). 1f, folded.
(iii) A poem: Hugo von Hoffmansthal, "Song for the Road", TS. 1f.
(iv) 3 prose tranlsations, grouped together: Gottfried Benn, "The Conquest"; Ivan Goll, "The Last Days of Berlin"; Robert Walser, "A Village Tale".
(v) A poem: Franz Mon (pseud of Christopher Middleton), "Grundriss", together with translation entitled "Groundplan". Accompanied by humourous text entitled "On Translating a Text by Franz Mon". Signed "Franz Mondleton ... Alias your Friend Christobal Columboid". TS. 17ff.
Texts of 4 BBC Radio (Third Programme) broadcasts by Christopher Middleton:
(i) "The Heraldic Universe". Recorded 25 March 1957. Relates to Lawrence Durell. TS. 11 ff.
(ii) "Conscience and Creation". Transmitted 7 July 1961. Relates to modern German poetry. TS. 16 ff.
(iii) "Trakl, Brecht and Now. 1. Georg Trakl". Transmitted 30 Dec. 1962. TS. 6 ff.
(iv) "Trakl, Brecht and Now. 2. Poems by Bertolt Brecht". Transmitted 5 Jan. 1963. TS. 6ff.
Press cuttings (TLS):
(i) "Myth and Fiction", 27 Jan. 1961, p.56.
(ii) Review of Christopher Middleton's "Torse 3", 4 May 1962.
(iii) "Poem fron East Germany", 20 Feb. 1964, p.144.
Miscellaneous:
(i) Offprint: J.C. Middleton, "Bolshevism in Art: Dada and Politics", from University of Texas "Studies in Literature and Language", vol. iv, no. 3, Autumn 1962, pp. [408]-430. Inscribed to Michael Hamburger and signed.
(ii) Offprint: J.C. Middleton, "The Picture of Nobody: Some Remarks on Robert Walser with a Note on Walser and Kafka", from "Revue de langues vivantes", xxiv, 1958, pp. 404-428. Inscribed to Michael Hamburger and signed.
(iii) Offprint: J.C.Middleton, "Hermann Hesse's 'Morgenland fahrt'", from "The Germanic Review", Dec. 1957, pp.300-310. Inscribed to Micahel Hamburger and signed.
(iv) Corrections relating to translations of Enzensberger. TS. and MS. 1f.
(v) Poem: Gottfried Benn, "Menschen getroffen", MS (Christopher Middleton's hand) 1f.
(vi) Poem: Max Hermann-Neisse, "Legend of the Bewitched Nunnery". Translation B. Deutsch and A. Yarmolinsky. MS (Christopher Middleton's hand) 1f.
(vii) "Poetry Book Society Bulletin", Nov. 1965. Includes piece by Christopher Middleton.
(vii) Photograph of Christopher Middleton.
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