| Author: | Rainer Maria Rilke | ISBN: | 9781466872684 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Publication: | June 3, 2014 |
| Imprint: | North Point Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| ISBN: | 9781466872684 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication: | June 3, 2014 |
| Imprint: | North Point Press |
| Language: | English |
Edward Snow's selection of more than one hundred of Rainer Maria Rilke's little-known and neglected poems in this bilingual edition offers the reader a glimpse into one of the most powerful and underrated accomplishments in all of modern poetry. The poems in Uncollected Poems reveal a freer, more dangerous, less self-fashioning Rilke than the poet of the Elegies and the Sonnets; and Snow's translations of them, while always scrupulously faithful to the German, bring Rilke's power and music into English with unmatched grace and intelligence.
Edward Snow's selection of more than one hundred of Rainer Maria Rilke's little-known and neglected poems in this bilingual edition offers the reader a glimpse into one of the most powerful and underrated accomplishments in all of modern poetry. The poems in Uncollected Poems reveal a freer, more dangerous, less self-fashioning Rilke than the poet of the Elegies and the Sonnets; and Snow's translations of them, while always scrupulously faithful to the German, bring Rilke's power and music into English with unmatched grace and intelligence.
