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Selected Poems

with parallel German text

Rainer Maria Rilke
Edited by Robert Vilain, Translated by Susan Ranson, and Marielle Sutherland

14 April 2011

ISBN: 9780199569410

416 pages
Paperback
196x129mm

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Oxford World's Classics

Price: £10.99

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, whose poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic development and includes the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus in accurate and sensitive new translations.

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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, whose poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic development and includes the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus in accurate and sensitive new translations.

  • A wide-ranging selection from the poetry of one of the leading poets of European Modernism, in new translation and with critically informed introduction and notes.
  • The only bilingual edition to include such a broad range of poems.
  • A comprehensive anthology containing representative selections from all Rilke's major verse collections and including the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus in their entirety.
  • Powerful translations that are both highly accurate and true to Rilke's poetic characteristics.
  • Invaluable and critically up to date introduction that charts the development of Rilke's aesthetics and poetic practice and situates him within the development of Modernism.
  • Chronology, Select Bibliography, and Explanatory Notes that identify people and places, and include key commentary by Rilke from letters or notes.

About the Author(s)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Edited by Robert Vilain, Professor of German, University of Bristol, Translated by Susan Ranson, and Marielle Sutherland

Table of Contents

    Selected early poems
    The Book of Hours (selections)
    The Book of Images (selections)
    New Poems (selections)
    Uncollected Poems (selections)
    Sonnets to Orpheus (complete)
    Duino Elegies (complete)

Reviews

"A masterly introduction to Rilke ... a representative and well-judged assortment of poems, both familiar and uncollected ... a wealth of excellent and thoughtful notes" - The Brown Book

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