Rilke, Poems from the Book of Hours. Bilingual Edition.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry. (Stephen Spender - The New York Review of Books )
Rilke remade the sturdy sonnet, recast the sonorous song. He quickened the German language itself. (Rika Lesser - The Nation )
One of the pillars of twentieth century poetry. (Choice )
Poets in English continue to line up for the inevitable failure of translating his [Rilke’s] short lyrics. The best translations I have seen are from Babette Deutsch. (Clive James - Slate )
An important text in the best available translation, presented in an edition nearly as striking as its contents. (David Shook - Molossus ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Rilke remade the sturdy sonnet, recast the sonorous song. He quickened the German language itself. (Rika Lesser - The Nation )
One of the pillars of twentieth century poetry. (Choice )
Poets in English continue to line up for the inevitable failure of translating his [Rilke’s] short lyrics. The best translations I have seen are from Babette Deutsch. (Clive James - Slate )
An important text in the best available translation, presented in an edition nearly as striking as its contents. (David Shook - Molossus ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Language Notes
Text: English, German
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful,
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Poems from the Book of Hours (New Directions Paperbook) (English and German Edition) (Paperback)
I have bought copies of this for many people and I keep a paperback copy to lend in addition to my first edition hardcover. Some of the writing is so lovely that if I read very many of the poems at once, I feel intoxicated. I would recommend this to most anyone.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Poems from book of hours by Rilke brief but beautiful,
By
This review is from: Poems from the Book of Hours (New Directions Paperbook) (English and German Edition) (Paperback)
Some years ago I acquired the version of Rilkes book of hours translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows and loved them so much ( please see review I wrote for this particular translation). I was hoping to find one poem from the book of hours that was included in the Macy/Barrows translation and even earlier on a audio cassette of poetry that featured several of Rilkes poems and an excerpt from Letters to a young poet,needless to say I am disappointed not to find this poem in this edition of the book of hours. That is why I Give it only four stars and not five. Aside from not finding this poem in this book I did find that the ones that were included here were beautiful and some how the translator has managed to bring more poetic fluency and even rhyme to these poems that were not in later editions of it which I appreciated. For those of you who would like to know the poem of which I speak of here I will copy it below as best as my memory knows it for you: You darkness of whom I born I love you more than all the fires that fense in the world. For the fire creates a circle of light for everyone and then no one learns of you. But the darkness takes in everything shapes and shadows creatures and me people, nations- just as they are. It let's me imagine a great presence stirring beside me. I believe in the night.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Too few.,
By frumiousb "frumiousb" (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Poems from the Book of Hours (New Directions Paperbook) (English and German Edition) (Paperback)
The number of poems that Deutsch thought would bear translation from the German is heartbreakingly small. Still, one is too glad she translated any to be more than fleetingly greedy. I was also happy to see the German versions of the poems, even though my German's a little too rusty to read for anything but pure meaning. Some sentences stand out-- "ALLES LEBEN WIRD GELEBT". Indeed. On my book list-- more Rilke.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
Da neigt sich die Stunde und ruhrt mich an mit klarem, metallenem Schlag: mir zittern die Sinne. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sind das New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Da neigt sich die Stunde und ruhrt mich an mit klarem, metallenem Schlag: mir zittern die Sinne. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sind das New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
