β Scribed by Mitchell, Stephen; Rilke, Rainer Maria
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Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilkeβs two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth centuryβs most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchellβs versions of Rilkeβs 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 Rilkeβs text, to his formal music, and to the complexity of his thought; at the same time, Mitchellβs work has authority and power as poetry in its own right
Rilke, Rainer Maria, -- 1875-1926 -- Translations into English. Elegiac poetry, German -- Translations into English. Sonnets, German -- Translations into English. German poetry -- Translations into English. Rilke, Rainer Maria, -- 1875-1926. Elegiac poetry, German. German poetry. Sonnets, German.
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Rilke is one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century. In his poetry, Rilke addresses the problems of death, God, and "destructive time," and attempts to overcome and transform these problems into an indestructive inner world.
<p>The late poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the summits of European poetry in the twentieth century. Completed in 1922, as were T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and James Joyce's Ulysses, Duino Elegies ranks with them as a classic of literary Modernism and as an inquiry into the spirit
