The Best of Rilke
72 Form-True Verse Translations With Facing Originals, Commentary And Compact Biography
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A distinguished poet-translator presents faithful verse translations of 72 poems in a bilingual edition with commentary and biographical material.Rainer Maria Rilke’s best poems are finally available in translations so faithful yet free flowing that a reader forgets they were not originally written in English. Applying the same principle of “form-true” rendering that earned him the Bollingen Prize for his translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, poet-translator Walter Arndt boldly claims to reproduce in English for the first time the prosodic identity of Rilke’s finest rhymed poems.
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The Best of Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter W. Arndt, Cyrus Hamlin
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1989
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- Titolo
- The Best of Rilke
- Sottotitolo
- 72 Form-True Verse Translations With Facing Originals, Commentary And Compact Biography
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Editore
- Dartmouth College Press
- Pubblicato
- 1989
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 213
- ISBN10
- 0874514614
- ISBN13
- 9780874514612
- Serie
- Valutazione
- 3,8 su 5
- Descrizione
- A distinguished poet-translator presents faithful verse translations of 72 poems in a bilingual edition with commentary and biographical material.Rainer Maria Rilke’s best poems are finally available in translations so faithful yet free flowing that a reader forgets they were not originally written in English. Applying the same principle of “form-true” rendering that earned him the Bollingen Prize for his translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, poet-translator Walter Arndt boldly claims to reproduce in English for the first time the prosodic identity of Rilke’s finest rhymed poems.