Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies - Rainer Maria Rilke - Dover Thrift Editions

Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke brings together two of the poet’s most celebrated works. This Dover Thrift Editions paperback presents the verses in acclaimed translations by Jessie Lemont.

Key details

• Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
• Series: Dover Thrift Editions
• Format: Paperback
• Length: 112 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• ISBN: 9780486838670

Synopsis

Written in an intense burst of creativity, Sonnets to Orpheus was composed over three weeks, shaped by Rilke’s response to the death of a friend’s daughter. Around the same period, he completed The Duino Elegies, a sequence of meditations that turns to love, death, God, and the meaning of life.

Closely linked in their concerns, these works are widely regarded as Rilke’s masterpieces, presented here in Jessie Lemont’s acclaimed English translations. Suitable for readers seeking major twentieth-century poetry in a compact paperback edition.

Rackhams Reference : NM35D27YGS