The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: Bilingual Edition
Publishing Details
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: Bilingual Edition
By (Author) Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Edited by Stephen Mitchell
Introduction by Robert Hass
Random House USA Inc
Vintage Books
22nd October 1990
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
831.912
Physical Properties
400
Width 130mm, Height 203mm, Spine 21mm
312g
Description
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) should stand as the definitive English language version.
Author Bio
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 theSonnets to Orpheusand theDuino Elegies; his two most famous prose works areLetters to a Young Poetand the semiautobiographicalThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
