Michael Hamburger is one of the most active and multifaceted English poets and scholars working today. In addition to having more than two dozen books and pamphlets of his poetry published since 1945, he has been an influential critic of romantic and modern literature and a translator specializing in classic and modern German poetry, including works by Hölderlin, Goethe, Hofmannsthal, Trakl, Brecht, Celan, Grass, and contemporary East German writers. He frequently contributes poems, translations, and prose to the Times Literary Supplement and to Agenda, one of the most important contemporary literary magazines in England, as well as to American journals such as Poetry. He has been awarded Bollingen Fellowships twice, in 1959 and 1965, and has won prizes in Europe and America for his translations and verse, including the Deutsche Akademie translation prize in 1964 and the Levinson Prize from Poetry in 1972.

Michael Peter Leopold Hamburger was born in Berlin...