Selected Poems - with parallel German text

Zusatztext A masterly introduction to Rilke ... a representative and well-judged assortment of poems! both familiar and uncollected ... a wealth of excellent and thoughtful notes Informationen zum Autor Robert Vilain is a Rilke specialist! co-editor (with Karen Leeder) of the Cambridge Companion to Rilke (2009) and a volume of essays in German on the late Rilke (2010). He has published widely on Rilke and his contemporaries.Susan Ranson is a poet and translator! a contributor to Modern Poetry in Translation. Her translation of Rilke's Book of Hours was published in 2008 (Camden House): 'fine! faithful versions...[which capture] the sonorities of the verse with apparent ease' (Brown Books).Marielle Sutherland is a published translator and author of Images of Absence: Death and the Language of Concealment in the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Weidler Verlag! 2006). Klappentext Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, whose poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic development and includes the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus in accurate and sensitive new translations. Zusammenfassung Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, whose poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic development and includes the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus in accurate and sensitive new translations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Selected early poems; The Book of Hours (selections); The Book of Images (selections); New Poems (selections); Uncollected Poems (selections); Sonnets to Orpheus (complete); Duino Elegies (complete)

Product details

• Authors: Rainer M. Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke
• Assisted by: Rober Vilain (Editor), Robert Vilain (Editor), Robert (Professor of German Vilain (Editor), Susan Ranson (Translation), Marielle Sutherland (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2011
• EAN: 9780199569410
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956941-0
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Deutsch, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), POETRY / General, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, Drama, Theaterstücke, Drehbücher, Deutsche Belletristik / Dramatik, Drehbuch, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Lyrik