Selected Poems, A Bilingual Edition - Rainer M. Rilke

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Selected Poems, Bilingual Edition - Rainer M. Rilke (Author), C. F. MacIntyre (Translator)

These poems, selected from Das Buch der Bilder and the two parts of Neue Gedichte, show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke's particular artistic and poetic power.

Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most important poets. His influences include the paintings of the Worpswedders and the French Impressionists, the sculpture of Rodin (to whom he was both friend and secretary), and the poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarmé, and other symbolists. His poetry is innovative, enigmatic, and entertainingly idiosyncratic. C.F. MacIntyre's translations are both true to the original and poetic in their own right, and in each book he includes an introduction and notes. German text faces the English translation.

Selected Poems, Bilingual Edition - About the Translator

C.F. MacIntyre (d.1967) was well known as a translator. In addition to works by Rilke, he translated Goethe's Faust and many of the French symbolists: Nerval, Baudelaire,Verlaine, Corbière, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Laforgue, and Valéry. His volumes of original poems include The Black Bull, Cafés and Cathedrals, and Poems.

  • Language

    German

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Book Binding

    Paperback

  • Book Format

    Unabridged

  • Book Genre

    Poetry

  • Book ISBN

    9780520229259

  • Book Page Count

    147

  • Book Publication Date

    May 2001

  • Book Publisher

    University of California Press

  • Product Supplier

    J Wiley

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