| The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-True Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary, and Compact Biography Contributor(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (Author), Arndt, Walter (Translator), Hamlin, Cyrus (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0874514614 ISBN-13: 9780874514612 Publisher: University Press of New England OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1991 Annotation: A distinguished poet-translator presents faithful verse translations of 72 poems in a bilingual edition with commentary and biographical material. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 831.912 |
| LCCN: 88040345 |
| Series: 72 Form-True Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Comme |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.5" W x 9.03" (0.66 lbs) 213 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Rainer Maria Rilke's best poems are finally available in translations so faithful yet free flowing that a reader forgets they were not originally written in English. Applying the same principle of "form-true" rendering that earned him the Bollingen Prize for his translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, poet-translator Walter Arndt boldly claims to reproduce in English for the first time the prosodic identity of Rilke's finest rhymed poems. |