Sonnets to Orpheus (English and German Edition)
Language: German
Published by North Point Press, 2004
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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First Edition Stated, Thus. 2004. Bilingual Ed (German & English). North Point Press. Hardcover. Edward Snow Translation. Text is clean and unmarked, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Hard Cover. Dust jacket is clean and bright, shows a bit of rubbing to edges, some edge & shelf wear. No rips, tears or stains. Tan cloth cover boards VG condition, clean, solid, square. Photos are of the actual item you will receive. Sonnets to Orpheus (English and German Edition). Rainer Maria Rilke. Ships quickly and with care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: German Language Edition. Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke Originally published in German in 1923 as 'Die Sonette an Orpheus,' this bilingual edition consists of approximately 140 pages. It stands as a central achievement of modernist European poetry, written in a concentrated, twenty-one-day burst of creative inspiration. The cycle was conceived as a memorial for Wera Ouckama Knoop, a young dancer and friend of Rilke's daughter. The work is composed of fifty-five sonnets divided into two distinct structural parts. The poems utilize the mythological figure of Orpheus to explore the themes of artistic transformation, transience, the unity of life and death, and the relationship between physical movement and poetic song. Structurally, Rilke innovates within the classical sonnet form, using complex meters, syntax, and interior rhymes to develop a philosophical defense of the creative act in a secularized world.…
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- Title
- Sonnets to Orpheus (English and German Edition)
- Author
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Publisher
- North Point Press
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- VERY GOOD
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- German
- ISBN 10
- 086547611X
- ISBN 13
- 9780865476110
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 36 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x9
- Seller catalogs
- Classics, First & Collectable Editions, Poetry
Breathing, you invisible poem!
World-space in pure continuous interchange
with my own being. Equipose
in which I rhythmically transpire.
Written only four years before Rilke's death, this sequence of sonnets, varied in form yet consistently structured, stands as the poet's final masterwork. In these meditations on the constant flux of our world and the ephemerality of experience, Rilke envisions death not only as one among many of life's transformations but also as an ideally receptive state of being. Because Orpheus has visited the realm of death and returned to the living, his lyre, a unifying presence in these poems, is an emblem of fluidity and musical transcendence. And Eurydice, condemned to Hades as a result of Orpheus's backward glance, becomes in Rilke's universe a mythical figure of consolation and hope.
Edward Snow, in his translations of New Poems, The Book of Images, Uncollected Poems, and Duino Elegies, has emerged as Rilke's most able English-language interpreter. Adhering faithfully to the intent of Rilke's German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English, Snow's Sonnets to Orpheus should serve as the authoritative translation for years to come.
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About the Author
Edward Snow is a professor of English at Rice University. He is the recipient of an Academy of Arts and Letters Award for his Rilke translations and has twice received the Academy of American Poets' Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
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