The essential Rilke / selected and translated by Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.

Contributor:

Kinnell, Galway, 1927-2014.

Liebmann, Hannah, 1933-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English & German

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926--Translations into English.

Rilke, Rainer Maria.

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.

Genre:

Translations.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xviii, 157 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Ecco Press, 2000.

Summary:

German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity. His Duino Elegies is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century. Yet translations from his native German have always presented challenges: the elusiveness of Rilke's imagery, the playful way he both distorts and subverts his own language, and the depth and complexity of his poetry make it difficult for translators to preserve the beauty and meaning of the original text. In his stunning bilingual selection that includes the entire Duino Elegies as well as a number of favorite and less familiar shorter poems, Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann manage to retain power and grace of Rilke's words. Throughout his poetry, Rilke addresses questions of how to live in and relate to a world in a voice that is simultaneoulsy prophetic and intensely personel. These translations offer new insight into this enigmatic German poet whose work will continue to be read and admired throughout the world.

Contents:

Sections From: The Book of Images (1902;1906)

New Poems (1907;1908)

Requiem (1909)

The Life of Mary (1913)

Uncollected

Duino Elegies (1923)

The Sonnets to Orpheus (1923).

ISBN:

0060956542

9780060956547

OCLC:

43481823

Online:

Publisher description