Duino elegies : and, The sonnets to Orpheus /
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| Author / Creator: | Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. |
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| Uniform title: | Duineser Elegien. English |
| Edition: | 1st Vintage International ed., Dual-language ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Vintage International, 2009. |
| Description: | xix, 283 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English German |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7887960 |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Includes indexes. |
| Physical Description: | xix, 283 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780307473738 0307473732 |
