The Poetry of Rilke (German/English Edition)

Rilke, Rainer Maria; translated by Edward Snow

ISBN 10: 0374235317 / ISBN 13: 9780374235314

Published by North Point Press, 2009

About this Item

First printing. 683 pp. Hardcover, bound in boards with dust jacket. Unmarked. Bilingual edition, translated from the German by Edward Snow.

Seller Inventory # Bx134-H

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Poetry of Rilke (German/English Edition)
• Publisher: North Point Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374235317
• ISBN 13: 9780374235314
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875 and traveled throughout Europe for much of his adult life, returning frequently to Paris. His last years were spent in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus. He died of leukemia in December 1926.

 

Edward Snow is a professor of English at Rice University. He is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for his Rilke translations and has twice received the Academy of American Poets’ Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.