The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: Bilingual Edition

by Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell (Translator), Stephen Mitchell (Editor), Robert Hass (Introduction)

Overview

"This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679722014
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/13/1989
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	332,259
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) studied literature, art history, and philosophy in both Munich and Prague and is often considered one of the German language's greatest twentieth-century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are Letters to a Young Poet and the semiautobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.