Duino Elegies & the Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual-Language Edition - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell (Translator)Series:Vintage InternationalPublish date:2009-10-06Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780307473738ISBN-10:307473732UPC:9780307473738Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:German, Inspirational & ReligiousSize:8.00 x 5.22 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCTHAGKMWA
Duino Elegies & the Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual-Language Edition
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...
Series: Vintage International
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780307473738ISBN-10:307473732UPC:9780307473738Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:German, Inspirational & ReligiousSize:8.00 x 5.22 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCTHAGKMWA
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the greatest lyric German poets. Born in Prague, he published his first book of poems, Leben und Lieber, at age nineteen. He met Lou Salomé, the talented and spirited daughter of a Russian army officer, who influenced him deeply. In 1902 he became the friend, and for a time the secretary, of Rodin, and it was during his twelve-year Paris residence that...
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