The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-True Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary, and Compact Biography
by RAINER MARIA RILKE
2021-05-26 02:38:15
The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-True Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary, and Compact Biography
by RAINER MARIA RILKE
2021-05-26 02:38:15
Rainer Maria Rilke''s best poems are finally available in translations so faithful yet free flowing that a reader forgets they were not originally written in English. Applying the same principle of "form-true" rendering that earned him the Bollingen ...
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Rainer Maria Rilke''s best poems are finally available in translations so faithful yet free flowing that a reader forgets they were not originally written in English. Applying the same principle of "form-true" rendering that earned him the Bollingen Prize for his translation of Pushkin''s Eugene Onegin, poet-translator Walter Arndt boldly claims to reproduce in English for the first time the prosodic identity of Rilke''s finest rhymed poems.
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