Duino Elegies & the Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual-Language Edition

Name: Duino Elegies & the Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual-Language Edition
Price: 17.0 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780307473738

by Rainer Maria Rilke

$17.00

In stock

Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke's two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century's most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell's versions of Rilke's 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 Rilke's text, to his formal music, and to the complexity of his thought; at the same time, Mitchell's work has authority and power as poetry in its own right.

Publisher:: Vintage
ISBN:: 9780307473738
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 304
Authors:: Rainer Maria Rilke
Published Date:: 2009-10-06
Language:: English

Ships directly to you from our US distribution partner. US delivery only.

Usually ships within 1–2 days.

Estimated total time for this book on its own:

Economy 4–10 days (usually about a week)
Expedited 3–7 days
Priority 2–6 days

Orders with more than one book may arrive in separate deliveries. Pre-orders always ship separately once the book is released.

We offer a 30-day return policy, which means you have 30 days after receiving your item to request a return. To be eligible for a return, your item must be in the same condition that you received it: new, unworn or unused, and in its original packaging. See details on our Return & Refund policy.

All Poetry European German Rainer Maria Rilke Religious Sonnets

About Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) was born in Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary. His major works include Das Stunden-Buch (1905), the two-volume New Poems (1907–1908), the prose work The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910), the Duino Elegies (1923), and the Sonnets to Orpheus (1923). He traveled widely across Europe and spent important years in Paris, where he served for a time as secretary to the sculptor Auguste Rodin. He died of leukemia in Switzerland. He also wrote Letters to a Young Poet.

If this information requires correction, please contact info@thepoetryshop.com.