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Sender: Middleton, Christopher (see also other record)
Recipient: Hamburger, Michael
Letters: 17
Date(s): 23 Oct.1956 - 29 May 1960; 1 n.d.
Location: BC Hamburger
Note: 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.
Sender: Middleton, Christopher (see also other record)
Recipient: Hamburger, Michael
Letters: 331
Date(s): 1 Dec. 1955 - 7 Jan 1994; 1 n.d.
Location: BC Hamburger
Note: Many dated from postmarks, Some assigned to a decade by Hamburger. Includes 55 postcards.
List of dates of letters or postmarks at which enclosures can be found:
(i) 15 Aug. 1957: transl., entitled "Nearness of the Beloved", of a poem by Goethe. MS. 1f.
(ii) 14 Dec. 1957: brief poem by Middleton "Song for Sarah", incorporated in text of letter.
(iii) 13 Sept. 1959: carbon copy of letter to Wallace Brockway of the Bollinger series, N.Y., from Middleton (n.d.).
(iv) 21 March 1960: letter to Hamburger from Edward L. Burlingame of Macgibbon and Kee, dated 17 March 1960.
(v) Undated item, presumed 1960's: poem in Middleton's hand on small card entitled "Oskar Loerke, from 'The Stone Path'".
(vi) 24 Nov. 1961: TS poem: "In Some Seer's Cloud Car". 1f.
(vii) 16 April 1962: copy of letter from Middleton to Richard Seaver, Grove Press, N.Y., dated 21 April 1962.
(viii) 3 March 1963: 2ff TS poems by Middleton ("In the Light" and "And Valley Folk". Of the latter, a note in Middleton's hand says "title of original: 'Not'").
(ix) 6 Dec. 1966: TS poem by Middleton, "Uomo Nella Luna" 1f.
(x) 4 Jan. 1967: 2ff TS poem ("In the Rain" and poem beginning "Now Begins...").
(xi) 22 Oct. 1967: 2 poems incorporated in text of letter illustrating plans for a new collection of poems ("The Joke" and "Concert 1866").
(xii) 18 Dec. 1968: TS poem by Middleton: "Snake Rock" Inscribed to Michael Hamburger and signed.
(xiii) 20 Sept. 1969: TS poem by Middleton: "Le nu provencal" 2ff.
(xiv) 14 Dec. 1971: TS poem: "The Translator". 1f.
(xv) 6 March 1972: TS poem by Middleton ("Holy Cow"), inscribed "For Michael from Christopher". 3ff; Daniil Kharms, "A Fable"; "Micro-story" taken from the book "Russia's Lost Literature of the Absurd". 1f.
(xvi) 16 March 1974: prose piece - description by Middleton of one of his own dreams. TS. 1f.
(xvii) 2 March 1981: poem by Middleton beginning "It is the Small...", inscribed to Michael and Anne Hamburger and signed. TS. 2ff.
(xviii) 4 Jan. 1991: poem by Middleton: "The Balcony Tree". TS. 2ff.
(xix) 27 March 1991: description by A.W. Wallace of the Malaysian kingbird. Quoted from J. Christian Bay, "Journeys and Voyages to Nature". Chicago, 1951. Pr. 1f. Photocopy.
(xx) 23 Oct. 1991: TS poem by Middleton: "More and More". 1f. Photocopy. Inscribed to Michael and Anne Hamburger and signed. Also (in envelope of undated items): 2 limericks (vulgar!); poem by Middleton, "Chanel Always Now". Inscribed to Michael Hamburger and signed, with message. Poem is [sic] "a piece of fum with'Vogue'(from which the text is derived)". TS. (carbon). 3ff.