Sonnets to Orpheus - Rainer Maria Rilke

Sonnets to Orpheus

By: Rainer Maria Rilke, M. D. Herter Norton

Paperback | 1 April 2006 | Edition Number 1

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One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.
To Rilke himself the "Sonnets to Orpheus" were "perhaps the most mysterious...in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of February, without one word being doubtful or having to be changed." With facing-page German.
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"[Edward Snow] has emerged as Rilke's outstanding English-language interpreter . . . [He] is doing important work. Robert Lowell once wrote that it was hard to imagine Rilke first written in English, that the poems were sealed in German. Snow is unsealing them." -- Robert Phillips, "Houston Chronicle

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