ENGLISHGERMAN

Duino elegies ; and, the sonnets to Orpheus

By Mitchell , Rainer Maria , Stephen; Rilke

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage International
Year
2009
ISBN
0307473732, 978-0-307-47373-8, 978-0-8041-5360-7
Language
englishgerman
Format
EPUB
Filesize
865 kB (886068 bytes)
Series
Vintage International
Edition
1st Vintage International ed., Dual-language ed
Pages
283\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
-- 1875-1926 -- Translations into English. Elegiac-- 1875-1926. Elegiac poetryGerman -- Translations into English. German poetryGerman -- Translations into English. SonnetsGerman.German. German poetry. SonnetsRainer MariaRilke

Description

Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell’s versions of Rilke’s two greatest masterpieces readers will discover an English rendering that captures the lyric intensity, fluency, and reach of his poetry. Stephen Mitchell adheres impeccably to Rilke’s text, to his formal music, and to the complexity of his thought; at the same time, Mitchell’s work has authority and power as poetry in its own right

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