| The Poetry of Rilke Bilingual Edition Contributor(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (Author), Snow, Edward (Translator), Zagajewski, Adam (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0374532710 ISBN-13: 9780374532710 Publisher: North Point Press OUR PRICE: $23.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: German Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - German |
| Dewey: 831 |
| Physical Information: 2" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (1.75 lbs) 720 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - German |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, Rilke's best contemporary translator (Brian Phillips, The New Republic), to bring into English Rilke's major poetic works. The Poetry of Rilke--the single most comprehensive volume of Rilke's German poetry ever to be published in English--is the culmination of this effort. With more than two hundred and fifty selected poems by Rilke, including complete translations of the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies, The Poetry of Rilke spans the arc of Rilke's work, from the breakthrough poems of The Book of Hours to the visionary masterpieces written only weeks before his death. This landmark bilingual edition also contains all of Snow's commentaries on Rilke, as well as an important new introduction by the award-winning poet Adam Zagajewski. The Poetry of Rilke will stand as the authoritative single-volume translation of Rilke into English for years to come. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zagajewski, Adam: - Adam Zagajewski was born in Lvov in 1945. His books include Tremor; Canvas; Mysticism for Beginners; Without End; Solidarity, Solitude; Two Cities; Another Beauty; A Defense of Ardor; Eternal Enemies;and Unseen Hand--all published by FSG. He lives in Chicago and Kraków.Snow, Edward: - Edward Snow is a professor of English at Rice University. He is the recipient of an Academy of Arts and Letters Award for his Rainer Maria Rilke translations and has twice received the Academy of American Poets' Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. He is the author of A Study of Vermeer and Inside Bruegel.Rilke, Rainer Maria: - Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875 and traveled throughout Europe for much of his adult life, returning frequently to Paris. There he came under the influence of the sculptor Auguste Rodin and produced much of his finest verse, most notably the two volumes of New Poems as well as the great modernist novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Among his other books of poems are The Book of Images and The Book of Hours. He lived the last years of his life in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. He died of leukemia in December 1926. |