The Poetry of Rilke

For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, "Rilke's best contemporary translator" (Brian Phillips,The New Republic), to bring into English Rilke's major poetic works.The Poetry of Rilkethe single most comprehensive volume of Rilke's German poetry ever to be published in Englishis the culmination of this effort. With more than two hundred and fifty selected poems by Rilke, including complete translations of theSonnets to Orpheusand theDuino Elegies,The Poetry of Rilkespans the arc of Rilke's work, from the breakthrough poems ofThe Book of Hoursto the visionary masterpieces written only weeks before his death. This landmark bilingual edition also contains all of Snow's commentaries on Rilke, as well as an important new introduction by the award-winning poet Adam Zagajewski.The Poetry of Rilkewill stand as the authoritative single-volume translation of Rilke into English for years to come.

Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875 and traveled throughout Europe for much of his adult life, returning frequently to Paris. His last years were spent in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus. He died of leukemia in December 1926.

Edward Snow is a professor of English at Rice University. He is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for his Rilke translations and has twice received the Academy of American Poets’ Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.

Introduction: Rereading Rilke by Adam ZagajewskiTranslator's Note From The Book of Hours (1905)
From The Book of Images (1902, 1906)
From New Poems (1907)
From New Poems: The Other Part (1908)
Duino Elegies (1923)
Sonnets to Orpheus (1923)
Uncollected Poems (1909-1926) Translator's Commentary
Index of Titles and First Lines in German
Index of Titles and First Lines in English

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