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Rainer Maria Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Sonnets to Orpheus
- Publication Name
- Sonnets to Orpheus
- Title
- Sonnets to Orpheus
- Translator
- David Young
- Contributor
- David Young (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0819561657
- EAN
- 9780819561657
- ISBN
- 9780819561657
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Poetry
- Release Year
- 1987
- Release Date
- 24/07/1987
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 1in
- Publication Year
- 1987
- Type
- Bilingual
- Topic
- European / German, General
- Item Width
- 1in
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 134 Pages
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An accomplished poet's first and only sonnet sequence. Sonnets to Orpheus is Rainer Maria Rilke's first and only sonnet sequence. It is an undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets, translated here by a master of translation, David Young. Rilke revived and transformed the traditional sonnet sequence in the Sonnets. Instead of centering on love for a particular person, as has many other sonneteers, he wrote an extended love poem to the world, celebrating such diverse things as mirrors, dogs, fruit, breathing, and childhood. Many of the sonnets are addressed to two recurrent figures: the god Orpheus (prototype of the poet) and a young dancer, whose death is treated elegiacally. These ecstatic and meditative lyric poems are a kind of manual on how to approach the world ? how to understand and love it. David Young's is the first most sensitive of the translations of this work, superior to other translations in sound and sense. He captures Rilke's simple, concrete, and colloquial language, writing with a precision close to the original.
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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN-10
0819561657
ISBN-13
9780819561657
eBay Product ID (ePID)
431242
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sonnets to Orpheus
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
European / German, General
Publication Year
1987
Type
Bilingual
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Number of Pages
134 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
1in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
1in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pt2635.I65s613 1987
Edition Description
Bilingual Edition
Reviews
An undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets translated here by a master of translation, "An undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets translated here by a master of translation"ÑVoice Literary Supplement, "An undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets translated here by a master of translation"-- Voice Literary Supplement, "An undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets translated here by a master of translation"- Voice Literary Supplement, "An undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets translated here by a master of translation" -- Voice Literary Supplement, "An undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets translated here by a master of translation"-- Voice Literary Supplement "An artful and sensitive translation of this most elusive of Rilke's poetrythe thing that Rilke made is once again alive to us, all of itYoung has subtractedthe most persistent problem with other translations: he does not let the music of the form haunt the poem. There is no rhetorical 'rounding-out,' in either Pound's fine phrase, emotional slither. The reader feels that Young has successfully 'inhabited' the form, found a correlative language."--Stanley Plumly, "An artful and sensitive translation of this most elusive of Rilke's poetrythe thing that Rilke made is once again alive to us, all of itYoung has subtractedthe most persistent problem with other translations: he does not let the music of the form haunt the poem. There is no rhetorical 'rounding-out,' in either Pound's fine phrase, emotional slither. The reader feels that Young has successfully 'inhabited' the form, found a correlative language."--Stanley Plumly, "An undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets translated here by a master of translation"--Voice Literary Supplement, "An undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets translated here by a master of translation"-Voice Literary Supplement
Copyright Date
1987
Lccn
8761-000046
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
Illustrated
Yes
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