Born in 1875, the German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart.
These translations by M.D. Herter Norton offer Rilke's work to the English-speaking world in an accurate, sensitive, modern version.
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is considered one of the greatest poets who ever wrote in the German language. His most famous works are Sonnets to Orpheus, The Duino Elegies, Letters to a Young Poet, and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. His collected work is comprised of hundreds of other poems, essays, plays, and stories.
M. D. Herter Norton is a publisher and translator. Together with her husband William Warder Norton, she founded the publishing company W. W. Norton & Company. Her work as translator includes the translation of works by Rainer Marie Rilke.
M. D. Herter Norton is a publisher and translator. Together with her husband William Warder Norton, she founded the publishing company W. W. Norton & Company. Her work as translator includes the translation of works by Rainer Marie Rilke.
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This review is from: Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Norton Paperback) (Paperback)
This is the book that introduced me to Rilke, and I still find myself reading it 35 years later. Ms. Norton's translations are not themselves poetry, nor do they need to be. The originals are here; the English versions are accurate enough to let the reader do without a dictionary. What more do you really need? There are no Duino Elegies here, nothing from "The Book of Hours", and none of the French poems, but "The Panther", "Spanish Dancer", and "Archaic Torso of Apollo" are included, so the novice need not fear missing out on all the famous stuff. By the way, the book starts off with some rather disappointing juvenilia, too saccharine for me even when I was 15, but the rest of the poems demonstrate that it is unwise to dismiss a poet just because he or she wrote dreck in the high school literary magazine.
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