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The Essential Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

Paperback | Pages: 157 pages

Rating: 4.2 | 508 Users | 38 Reviews

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Title	:	The Essential Rilke
Author	:	Rainer Maria Rilke
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 157 pages
Published	:	September 5th 2000 by Ecco (first published August 1st 1999)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Philosophy. Fiction. Literature

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German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity.  His Duino Elegies is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century.  Yet translations from his native German have always presented challenges: the elusiveness of Rilke's imagery, the playful way he both distorts and subverts his own language, and the depth and complexity of his poetry make it difficult for translators to preserve the beauty and meaning of the original text.  In his stunning bilingual selection that includes the entire Duino Elegies as well as a number of favorite and less familiar shorter poems, Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann manage to retain power and grace of Rilke's words.  Throughout his poetry, Rilke addresses questions of how to live in and relate to a world in a voice  that is simultaneoulsy prophetic and intensely personel.  These translations offer new insight into this enigmatic German poet whose work will continue to be read and admired throughout the world.

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Original Title:	The Essential Rilke
ISBN:	0060956542 (ISBN13: 9780060956547)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.2 From 508 Users | 38 Reviews

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I appreciate seeing the original German side-by-side with the translation! It completely changes the reading experience for me, particularly with poetry.

This book has gone everywhere with me for the past 10 years. It never leaves my bedside & I always take it with me if I travel somewhere. The prose of Rilke is extrodinary.

Again, I'm unsure of the quality of the translation, but this book is wonderful as far as I'm concerned. It's an excellent collection of some of Rilke's better known and most appreciated poetry.

This is a small collection of Rilke's poems, with original German on the left, the translation on the right side. This decreases the number of essentials to include, but what is there is a perfect way to introduce yourself to Rilke (I have already read the New Poems, but since it's been years from that, this is still a new to me).This is a selected number of poems plus all of Duino Elegies; this is also a revised edition. The introduction talks about how tricky it is to translate Rilke, and I

Maybe 4 stars. Pretty good but i was grabbed by about 6 of them and the rest were ok... First go at poetry in a while so probably my bad



This is an excellent translation.