Rainer Maria Rilke

Broschiertes Buch

The Best of Rilke

72 Form-True Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary, and Compact Biography

Übersetzer: Arndt, Walter

Beschreibung

A distinguished poet-translator presents faithful verse translations of 72 poems in a bilingual edition with commentary and biographical material.

Autor

RAINER MARIA RILKE was born in Prague in 1875. After a motley education at military and business schools and at Prague's Charles University, he traveled in Europe, Russia, Egypt, and Tunsinia. In addition to Sonnets to Orpheus, Rilke's works include the Duino Elegies, The Book of Pictures, Poems from the Book of Hours, New Poems, and The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge. Rilke died in 1926. WALTER ARNDT is Sherman Fairchild Professor of Humanities and Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Emeritus, at Dartmouth College. His verse translations include Goethe's Faust (1976) and Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1963).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of New England
• Seitenzahl: 213
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780874514612
• ISBN-10: 0874514614
• Artikelnr.: 22419243