Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) (Volume 19)

Rilke, Rainer Maria; Ranson, Susan; Hutchinson, Ben

ISBN 10: 1571133801 / ISBN 13: 9781571133809

Published by Camden House, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) (Volume 19)
• Publisher: Camden House
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1571133801
• ISBN 13: 9781571133809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less known. The Book of Hours, written in three bursts between 1899 and 1903, is Rilke's most formative work, covering a crucial period in his rapid ascent from fin-de-siècle epigone to distinctive modern voice. The poems document Rilke's tour of Russia with Lou Andreas-Salomé, his hasty marriage and fathering of a child in Worpswede, and his turn toward the urban modernity of Paris. He assumes the persona of an artist-monk undertaking the Romantics' journey into the self, speaking to God as part transcendent deity, part needy neighbor. The poems can be read simply for their luminous lyricism, captured in Susan Ranson's superb new translation, which reproduces the music of the original German with impressive fluidity. An in-depth introduction explains the context of the work and elucidates its major themes, while the poem-by-poem commentary is helpful to the student and the general reader. A translator's note treating the technical problems of rhythm, meter, and rhyme that the translator of Rilke faces completes the volume. Susan Ranson is the co-translator, with Marielle Sutherland, of Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems (Oxford World's Classics, 2011). Ben Hutchinson is Reader in Modern German at the University of Kent, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Ben HutchinsonTranslator's Note by Susan RansonDas Stunden-Buch / The Book of HoursErstes Buch: Das Buch vom mönchischen LebenFirst Book: The Book of Monkish LifeZweites Buch: Das Buch von der PilgerschaftSecond Book: The Book of PilgrimageDrittes Buch: Das Buch von der Armut und vom TodeThird Book: The Book of Poverty and DeathCommentary and Notes: First Book, Second Book, Third BookIndex of English First LinesIndex of German First Lines

About the Author

Susan Ranson is the co-translator, with Marielle Sutherland, of Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems (Oxford World's Classics, 2011). Ben Hutchinson is Reader in Modern German at the University of Kent, UK.