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| Author / Creator: | Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. |
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| Uniform title: | Poems. English & German. Selections |
| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. |
| Description: | xlix, 358 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Language: | English German |
| Series: | Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8449017 |
| Summary: | 'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us'Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus written in 1922, his poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. He strives constantly to interrogate the relationship between his art and the world aroundhim, moving from the neo-romantic and the mystic towards the precise craft of expressing the everyday in poetry.This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic development. It contains the full text of theDuino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, selected poems from The Book of Images, New Poems, and earlier volumes, and from the uncollected poetry 1906-26. The translations are accurate, sensitive, and nuanced, and are accompanied by an introduction and notes that elucidate Rilke's poetic practice and his central role in modern poetry. |
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| Physical Description: | xlix, 358 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [xl]-xlv). |
| ISBN: | 9780199569410 019956941X |
