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SONNETS TO ORPHEUS
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| By: |
Rainer Rilke, Martyn Crucefix (Trans) |
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| ISBN 10: |
1907587225 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781907587221 |
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| Publisher: |
ENITHARMON PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
4 October, 2012 |
| Pages: |
142 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Description: |
In fifty-five sonnets, Rilke plays an astonishing set of philosophical and sensual variations on the Orpheus myth. 'Praising, that's it!' he declares; nature, art, love, time, childhood, technology, poverty, justice - all are encompassed in poems that spark with insight and invention, amongst the joyful and light-footed that Rilke ever wrote. |
| Synopsis: |
In fifty-five sonnets, Rilke plays an astonishing set of philosophical and sensual variations on the Orpheus myth. 'Praising, that's it!' he declares; nature, art, love, time, childhood, technology, poverty, justice - all are encompassed in poems that spark with insight and invention, amongst the joyful and light-footed that Rilke ever wrote. 'All poetry resists translation, and one poem may have many different versions in another language; what I look for first is clarity, and this version supplies that generously. With the presence of the German text and Crucefix's helpful notes, the English-speaking reader with little or no German will find in this version a welcoming entrance to the path which leads eventually to a full understanding - if a full understanding of this mysterious poetry is ever possible. This translation will have, and keep, a place on my shelves where all the poetry lives.' PHILIP PULLMAN |
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UK |
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Enitharmon Press |
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