Sonnets to Orpheus

Name: Sonnets to Orpheus
Brand: Enitharmon Press
SKU: 9781907587221
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By (author): Rainer Rilke

Translated by: Martyn Crucefix

In fifty-five sonnets, Rilke plays an astonishing set of philosophical and sensual variations on the Orpheus myth. 'Praising, that's it!' he declares; nature, art, love, time, childhood, technology, poverty, justice - all are encompassed in poems that spark with insight and invention, amongst the joyful and light-footed that Rilke ever wrote. 'All poetry resists translation, and one poem may have many different versions in another language; what I look for first is clarity, and this version supplies that generously. With the presence of the German text and Crucefix's helpful notes, the English-speaking reader with little or no German will find in this version a welcoming entrance to the path which leads eventually to a full understanding - if a full understanding of this mysterious poetry is ever possible. This translation will have, and keep, a place on my shelves where all the poetry lives.' PHILIP PULLMAN See more

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Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
Publication Date: 16 Oct 2012
Publisher: Enitharmon Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781907587221

About Rainer Rilke

Perhaps the greatest lyric poet of the twentieth century RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875 - 1926) was born in Prague and led a nomadic existence living in Germany Russia Spain Italy and France before his death in Switzerland from leukaemia. He dedicated himself exclusively to his work including the New Poems (1907 - 8) the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) Duino Elegies (1923) and Sonnets to Orpheus (1923). MARTYN CRUCEFIX's own poetry - for which he has won numerous prizes including a major Eric Gregory award and a Hawthornden Fellowship - has been praised as 'urgent heartfelt controlled and masterful' (Poetry London). His collections include Beneath Tremendous Rain (1990) At The Mountjoy Hotel (1993) On Whistler Mountain (1994) A Madder Ghost (Enitharmon 1997) An English Nazareth (Enitharmon 2004) and Hurt (Enitharmon 2012). His translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies (Enitharmon 2006) was shortlisted for the Corneliu Popescu Prize and chosen by the novelist Philip Pullman as one of his 40 favourite books.