New Poems: 164 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) - Softcover

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1640140417 ISBN 13: 9781640140417

Verlag: Camden House, 2018

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A new translation of Rilke's groundbreaking volume, following the formal properties of the original poems, especially meter and rhyme, as closely as English allows. Rainer Maria Rilke, the most famous (and important) German language poet of the twentieth century - a master to be ranked with Goethe and Heine - wrote the New Poems of 1907 and 1908 in transition from his late-nineteenth-century style. They mark his appearance as a lyrical, metaphysical poet of the modernist sensibility, often using traditional forms like the sonnet to explore the inner essence, the deep heart, of things - often, quite literally, things. Influenced by his time spent as Rodin's secretary, Rilke turned to quotidian life and sought to artistically redeem it in all its possibilities. His exquisite use of meter and rhyme marks him as a "formalist" and yet a contemporary of Eliot and the later Yeats, so this translation follows, as closely as English allows, the formal properties of the original poems, in a line-for-line version, while trying to capture the spare diction and direct idiomsof modernism. Len Krisak is a recipient of the Richard Wilbur, Robert Penn Warren, and Robert Frost prizes in poetry. He has published more than five hundred poems, including translations from the Latin, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and German.

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RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) was an Austrian poet and novelist .

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• Verlag: Camden House
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1640140417
• ISBN 13: 9781640140417
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 434
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