The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Bilingual Edition
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
22 October 1990
Summary
Stephen Mitchell offers what are perhaps the most masterful and intimate translations of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry to date, infusing it with all the power, eloquence, rhythm and lightness of its original voice. Includes the Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus.
“This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced.” — Chicago Tribune
This should stand as the definitive English language version.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679722014 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679722017 |
| Author: | Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell, Robert Hass |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 22 October 1990 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 131mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) studied literature, art history, and philosophy in both Munich and Prague and is often considered one of the German language’s greatest twentieth-century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are Letters to a Young Poet and the semiautobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
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