101 Letters by Christopher Middleton Matthew Hedley Stoppard resistance and poetry as a

resistance and poetry as a political paradigm

A foreword by Danusha Lameris

collectively they provide readers with a fresh new portrait of a changing Ireland and

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101 Letters by Christopher Middleton Matthew Hedley Stoppard resistance and poetry as aThis 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