Sonnets to Orpheus

Informationen zum Autor Rainer Maria Rilke is a 20th-century German poet whose work tended to focus on the problems of Christianity in an age of disbelief, solitude, and anxiety. Stephen Cohn is a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Klappentext The content of these sonnets, appearing comparatively simple at first, resonate far beyond the familiar legend of Orpheus and Eurydice; they have a range that encompasses the Singing God and his beloved Eurydice; legend in general; time; flight and change; architecture, music and dance; and animals, plants, flowers, and fruits. Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus" appear simple, even casual, at first reading, but have a content which resonates far beyond the familiar legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. The ten letters to the officer-cadet Franz Xavier Kappus, were written between 1903 and 1908.

Product details

• Authors: Rainer Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke
• Assisted by: Stephen Cohn (Translation)
• Publisher: External catalogue UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2000
• EAN: 9781857544565
• ISBN: 978-1-85754-456-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies