Other author/creator | Krisak, Len, 1948- translator. |
Other author/creator | Schoolfield, George C., writer of introduction. |
Included Work | Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 Neue Gedichte. |
Included Work | Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. Neue Gedichte. English. |
Included Work | Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 Neuen Gedichte anderer Teil. |
Included Work | Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 Neuen Gedichte anderer Teil. English. |
Uniform title | Poems. Selections. English |
Series |
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered) ^A302612
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Scope and content |
"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 idioms of modernism" -- Provided by publisher |
General note | Translation of: Neue Gedichte (Leipzig: Insel, 1907) and Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil (Leipzig: Insel, 1908). |
General note | Includes indexes of titles and first lines in German and English (two indexes). |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Language | English and German on facing pages. |
Genre/form | Poetry. |
LCCN | 2015017329 |
ISBN | 9781571139504 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 1571139508 (hardcover : alk. paper) |