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Sonnets to Orpheus

Rainer Maria Rilke

To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of February, without one word being doubtful or having to be changed." With facing-page German.

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Apr 17th, 2006
  • Pages: 162
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.36in - 0.42in - 0.40lb
  • EAN: 9780393328851
  • Categories: European - General

About the Author

Norton, M. D. Herter: - M.D.H. Norton (1894-1985) was cofounder of W. W. Norton & Company, now the oldest and largest publisher owned wholly by its employees.
Rilke, Rainer Maria: - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies, and Letters to a Young Poet, was one of the greatest poets of the German language.

Praise for this book

"[Edward Snow] has emerged as Rilke's outstanding English-language interpreter . . . [He] is doing important work. Robert Lowell once wrote that it was hard to imagine Rilke first written in English, that the poems were sealed in German. Snow is unsealing them." -- Robert Phillips, "Houston Chronicle