Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

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.

A masterly introduction to Rilke.. a representative and well-judged assortment of poems, both familiar and uncollected ... a wealth of excellent and thoughtful notes * The Brown Book *

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 Book of Hours was published in 2008 (Camden House): 'fine, faithful versions...[which capture] the sonorities of the verse with apparent ease' (Brown Books). Marielle Sutherland is a published translator and author of Images of Absence: Death and the Language of Concealment in the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Weidler Verlag, 2006).

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ISBN 13	9780199569410
ISBN 10	019956941X
Title	Selected Poems
Author	Rainer Maria Rilke
Series	Oxford World's Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2011-04-14
Number of pages	416
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