Duino Elegies/The Sonnets of Orpheus
Long considered the definitive English translation of Rilke’s brilliant and haunting masterworks, A. Poulin’s edition of Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus provides an essential introduction to some of the most passionate and intensely creative visionary poetry of the twentieth century....
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Long considered the definitive English translation of Rilke’s brilliant and haunting masterworks, A. Poulin’s edition of Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus provides an essential introduction to some of the most passionate and intensely creative visionary poetry of the twentieth century. With a new foreword by the esteemed poet Mark Doty and a fresh new design, Poulin’s revered translation is certain to acquaint a new generation of readers with the works of Rilke.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780618565894 (0618565892)
Publish date: April 20th 2005
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
To fill in the German around the audiobook.
Translated and read by Stephen Mitchell. I love Rilke so instead of commenting on the poems, I'll kvetch a little about some of the shortfalls of audiobooks. In book form, does this translation have an introduction? Explanatory notes? A facing page in the original German? In addition to the pretty c...
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