Sonnets to Orpheus / Rainer Maria Rilke ; translated from the German by Christiane Marks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926, author.

Contributor:

Marks, Christiane, translator.

Standardized Title:

Sonette an Orpheus. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Orpheus (Greek mythological character)--In literature.

Orpheus.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria.

Orpheus (Greek mythological character).

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.

Literature.

Genre:

Translations.

Physical Description:

xxv, 111 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : Open Letter Books, 2019.

Language Note:

Poems in German and English on facing pages.

Summary:

"Rainer Maria Rilke's fifty-five Sonnets to Orpheus were written over a few days in an astonishing burst of inspiration. Described by Rilke himself as "a spontaneous inner dictation," the sequence is among the most famous works of modernist literature, and Christiane Marks's fresh new translations succeed in evoking Rilke's music-often sacrificed in translation-opening a new window on these poems, for old and new Rilke lovers alike. The result of nearly two decades of memorization, research, and fine-tuning, Marks's translations, only the second by a woman and the first by a native German speaker, recapture Rilke's astonishingly contemporary, often colloquial style"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781948830065

194883006X

OCLC:

1091586983