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Rainer Maria Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus (Bilingual Edition) (Paperback)

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Book Title
Sonnets to Orpheus
Publication Name
Sonnets to Orpheus (Bilingual Edition)
Title
Sonnets to Orpheus (Bilingual Edition)
Author
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translator
Daniel Joseph Polikoff
Contributor
Daniel Joseph Polikoff (Introduction by)
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1621381161
EAN
9781621381167
ISBN
9781621381167
Publisher
Angelico Press
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Release Year
2015
Release Date
28/02/2015
Language
English
Item Height
216mm
Item Length
8.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
195g
Publication Year
2015
Topic
European / German

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COMPOSED IN A BURST of inspiration near the end of the poet's life, Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus represents the consummation of the writer's career, distilling the essence of his poetic wisdom in a gem-like sequence. This new translation--with the original German on facing pages--offers a clear window into the world of this endlessly scintillating cycle of poems. "Daniel Polikoff's English version of Rilke's last sonnet sequence, perhaps his greatest work, is wholly admirable. Rilke's late work is extremely difficult to penetrate. Both its conceptual nature and Rilke's unique use of the German language tend to resist interpretation. Astonishingly, Polikoff has found ways of rendering Rilke's complexities into English and also preserving his metrical and rhyme schemes. Such an accomplishment is possible only with a deep understanding of Rilke's vision and a knowledge of the root structure of German. Daniel Polikoff gives us Rilke in word and spirit in these splendid Sonnets."--LISEL MUELLER, National Book Award for Poetry (1981) for The Need to Hold Still; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1997) for Alive Together: New & Selected Poems "Daniel Polikoff is the first to achieve the unimaginable: an English translation which brings the form and content of these Sonnets together into an organic confluence. These new translations lift our understanding of Rilke's spiritual and aesthetic inspiration up to a whole different level, one accessible for the first time to the English reader. As a professor of German literature who has taught these sonnets for over thirty years, I can only thank Daniel Polikoff for this phenomenal accomplishment. His version should serve as the new standard for Rilke translations and belongs on the bookshelves of every poetry lover."--LUDWIG MAX FISCHER, author of Seasons of the Soul: The Poetic Guidance of Herman Hesse "This is a uniquely faithful, skillful, and eloquent translation of one of the greatest poems of the 20th century. I salute Daniel Polikoff and recommend his wonderful work to all seekers and lovers of poetry."--ANDREW HARVEY, author of Teachings of Rumi Poet-scholar Daniel Joseph Polikoff has published two books of poetry as well as a major work on Rilke and depth psychology: In the Image of Orpheus: Rilke-A Soul History.

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Publisher
Angelico Press
ISBN-10
1621381161
ISBN-13
9781621381167
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Sonnets to Orpheus
Author
Rainer Maria Rilke
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
European / German
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry

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Item Length
8.5in
Item Width
5.5in

Additional Product Features

Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
831/.912
Dewey Edition
19

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