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Sonnets to Orpheus, Bilingual Edition
Rainer M. Rilke
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Description for Sonnets to Orpheus, Bilingual Edition
Paperback. Written with astonishing rapidity in two weeks of February 1922, when Rilke was finally completing the "Duino Elegies" that had occupied him intermittently for a decade, this book is a series of 55 songs. This edition includes an introduction and notes. German text faces the English translation. Translator(s): MacIntyre, C. F. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 185 x 107 x 13. Weight in Grams: 140.
Written with astonishing rapidity in two weeks of February 1922, when Rilke was finally completing the Duino Elegies that had occupied him intermittently for a decade, Sonnets to Orpheus is a series of fifty-five brilliant and affirmative songs. It is in a sense a spontaneous creative dividend generated by a larger work. Because the sonnets were written only four years before Rilke's death, they belong properly to his final and philosophic period, and offer a sharp and striking contrast to the less mystical Das Buch der Bilder and Neue Gedichte. Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most important poets. ... Read more
Written with astonishing rapidity in two weeks of February 1922, when Rilke was finally completing the Duino Elegies that had occupied him intermittently for a decade, Sonnets to Orpheus is a series of fifty-five brilliant and affirmative songs. It is in a sense a spontaneous creative dividend generated by a larger work. Because the sonnets were written only four years before Rilke's death, they belong properly to his final and philosophic period, and offer a sharp and striking contrast to the less mystical Das Buch der Bilder and Neue Gedichte. Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most important poets. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520229228
SKU
V9780520229228
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About Rainer M. Rilke
C.F. MacIntyre (d.1967) was well known as a translator. In addition to works by Rilke, he translated Goethe's Faust and many of the French symbolists: Nerval, Baudelaire,Verlaine, Corbiere, Mallarme, Rimbaud, Laforgue, and Valery. His volumes of original poems include The Black Bull, Cafes and Cathedrals, and Poems.
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