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Selected Poems: with parallel German text
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Description for Selected Poems: with parallel German text
Paperback. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, whose poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic development and includes the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus in accurate and sensitive new translations. Editor(s): Vilain, Robert. Translator(s): Ranson, Susan; Sutherland, Marielle. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 286.
'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us' Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus written in 1922, his poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. He strives constantly to interrogate the relationship between his art and the world around him, moving from the neo-romantic and the mystic towards the precise craft of expressing the everyday in poetry. This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic ... Read more
'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us' Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus written in 1922, his poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. He strives constantly to interrogate the relationship between his art and the world around him, moving from the neo-romantic and the mystic towards the precise craft of expressing the everyday in poetry. This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199569410
SKU
V9780199569410
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About Rainer Maria Rilke
Robert Vilain is a Rilke specialist, co-editor (with Karen Leeder) of the Cambridge Companion to Rilke (2009) and a volume of essays in German on the late Rilke (2010). He has published widely on Rilke and his contemporaries. Susan Ranson is a poet and translator, a contributor to Modern Poetry in Translation. Her translation of Rilke's ... Read more
Reviews for Selected Poems: with parallel German text
A masterly introduction to Rilke ... a representative and well-judged assortment of poems, both familiar and uncollected ... a wealth of excellent and thoughtful notes
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