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New poems / Rainer Maria Rilke ; Translated by Len Krisak ; With an Introduction by George C. Schoolfield.

Author/creator Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Rochester, N.Y. : CAMDEN HOUSE, [2015]
Descriptionxlii, 392 pages ; 24 cm.
Other author/creatorKrisak, Len, 1948- translator.
Other author/creatorSchoolfield, George C., writer of introduction.
Included WorkRilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 Neue Gedichte.
Included WorkRilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. Neue Gedichte. English.
Included WorkRilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 Neuen Gedichte anderer Teil.
Included WorkRilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 Neuen Gedichte anderer Teil. English.
Uniform titlePoems. Selections. English
Series Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered) ^A302612
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 noteTranslation of: Neue Gedichte (Leipzig: Insel, 1907) and Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil (Leipzig: Insel, 1908).
General noteIncludes indexes of titles and first lines in German and English (two indexes).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageEnglish and German on facing pages.
Genre/formPoetry.
LCCN 2015017329
ISBN9781571139504 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1571139508 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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